Good Endings: How to Write a Kicker Your Editor—and Your Readers—Will Love November 24, 2015 Robin Meadows
( The Sunnah is indivisible from the Quran, for it is the living interpretation of the Quran by Prophet Muhammad (saas), The Prophet (saas) is a role model. Believers look at his Sunnah and learn how to implement its precepts and practices in their lives. Sometimes I write a story’s ending first, and sometimes it pops into my head when I get there. Other times it feels like I’ve already said it all and I struggle with the kicker. But easy or hard, endings deserve as much care as beginnings . “While we obsess about beginnings, we often don’t spend enough time sculpting our endings , or kickers, and that’s too bad,” Michelle Nijhuis wrote in The Science Writers’ Handbook . “Endings are our last word to the reader, and often what readers remember most.” So how do you write an ending that sticks? Here are three editors on kickers they love and why they love them , and the writers on how they did it. Each kicker is preceded by a bit of context, including a short summary of