How to end a Story? An Impressive Ending

Change

  • Chaos
  • How does Change come?
  • Why should there be Change?
  • How does Change fall onto the Characters?
  • What’s Randomness?
  • Why does the Characters fear it?
  • How does Randomness create Disparity?
  • How does Randomness create Unfairness?
  • Consistency
  • What is Expected?
  • Who is supposed to achieve their Goal?
  • Who is supposed to find what they were looking for?
  • How will they find it?
  • What else could wait them here?
  • Should they meet a satisfying end?
  • Why would this end be satisfying for them?
  • Brutality
  • What is Unexpected?
  • How should it be delivered?
  • How comfortable was the Story?
  • Why did it feel Comfortable?
  • How do you reverse it?
  • How do you reverse it in 1 Chapter?
  • Which element did you use during the whole story?
  • How would it allow you to reverse the Story?
  • Which kind of element was it?
  • Was it an Item?
  • Who possessed it?

Crisis

  • Catastrophe
  • What happens in the last Scene?
  • How does it destroy the Scenery?
  • Which kind of Phenomenon is it?
  • What’s its origin?
  • Could it be reversed?
  • Was it Predictable?
  • Was it Stoppable?
  • Why wasn’t it stopped?
  • Who wasn’t it prevented?
  • Damages
  • Who’s impacted?
  • What’s impacted?
  • How are the Characters & Settings impacted?
  • How many are killed?
  • How many are injured?
  • To which degree?
  • How’s the Accumulation transcribed?
  • How does it Escalate?
  • What other factors make it worse?
  • Which of these factors are of Human origin?
  • Which of these factors are of Natural origin?
  • Aftermath
  • What’s the state of the Environment after the last Scene?
  • Is it still usable?
  • How long will it be until the Environment is restored?
  • Can people still live here?
  • In which conditions?
  • Is it preferable to move?
  • Is there a place left to move?
  • Is it reachable?
  • How can it be reached?
  • How dangerous is it?

Convergence

  • Contingencies
  • Who came to assist to the End?
  • What did they find?
  • How were they brought hereby?
  • Which Opportunity did they see?
  • What did they intend to find in this place?
  • Which Common Message gathered them?
  • Who were the messengers?
  • How did they contact the Characters?
  • Revelation
  • What was the Message?
  • How was the Message unfold all along the story?
  • On what was the Emphasis?
  • How was it Emphasized?
  • What were the main Symbols?
  • How do they create Contrast?
  • How do they densify the Story?
  • How do the Symbols create meaning?
  • Were they Hidden?
  • How were they Hidden?
  • Do they seem to Appear at the End?
  • Gift
  • What are the Characters offered in the End?
  • How can they Appreciate it?
  • Is it worth their Appreciation?
  • Does it ensure their Survival?
  • Who is still alive?
  • In which state are they?
  • Did they achieve their goal?
  • Is their goal still achievable?
  • Has the object of their desire disappear?

Revolution

  • Insurrection
  • How is the World organized?
  • What form of oppressions are there?
  • Are there dominations?
  • Are there reifications?
  • How is the World Stratified?
  • Is it Stagnating?
  • How is Fairness perceived?
  • How is Justice perceived?
  • Which organizations are willing to enter in conflicts?
  • Which organizations try to avoid conflicts?
  • To which extent do they go to avoid conflicts?
  • Upheaval
  • How violent are the Populations?
  • Are some Populations peaceful?
  • Are there Warmongers?
  • Who are they?
  • What are they trying to impose?
  • What are they opposing?
  • How goes their Opposition?
  • What needs do they invoke?
  • How comes the Upheaval?
  • What type of Destruction does it provoke?
  • New World
  • What is created?
  • What comes out of this Destruction?
  • Which new moves come to birth?
  • Who is left to administrate the new Populations?
  • Which new Points of interest emerge?
  • Which new Settlement are created?
  • Which kind of People do they attract?
  • What are the new Landmarks?

The End

  • The Inevitable
  • Why does the End come?
  • What makes it Necessary?
  • Why did the World need to End?
  • What would happen if it continue to exist?
  • Is the world left, in this State, still valuable?
  • Has the world still a reason to exist?
  • Who wants the End to come?
  • When does the End become Desirable?
  • The Reassuring
  • The End will come.
  • How sure is the Ending?
  • How safe is the Ending?
  • Will it allow the Characters to Rest?
  • When will the Characters reach it?
  • How do they hope to reach it?
  • How painful is their journey?
  • Why would they want to End it?
  • The Beginning
  • How definitive is the End?
  • Which form of growth does the End permit?
  • How will the World be transformed post-end?
  • What provoked these transformations?
  • What are the effect of these Transformations?
  • How will these transformations enhance the World?
  • What will the New World look like?
  • Who will reach this New World?
  • How does this New World develop itself?
  • Does it belong to a New Story?
  • Which Story?

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