Wrap everything together

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

-- Robin Williams

This post sort of reminds of the last one, how you end everything. But, in a different way. Last time I talked/wrote about how you end things with words, but one of my dearest friends kind of pointed out for me that I didn't speak about how you wrap the story together at the end. She asked for help, so I helped her, I hope and think I did at least.
   The ending is one of the most important points in the story. It's where you tie together all of the loose strands. This is where it gets hard. You must answer almost all of the questions that the readers might have. It's also where you maybe show the characters' evolution through the story. The character that maybe didn't have any friends at the beginning of the story now have at least one friend that s/he can trust.
   But, the meaning of wrapping everything together doesn't just aim the ending. It's the whole story you need to wrap together, fill the empty spots in the story between two scenarios. And scenarios can be a lot of different things, maybe a fight scene, or maybe just a sentence you wanted a character to say. 

These scenarios are important because it's a really good way to build a story. If you write up every scenario (name them to something short) on a post-it note you see everything you have to work with. Just look at the post-it notes after you have put them in the right order. Maybe you realize that you want to change the order. Either way you now have the main events in front of you. Now you just need to fill the white spots between all of these events.

   This is like planning the story, I know that, but it helps. If you see all the main events you want to have in the story it's easier to write, because you know where the story is going. And if you know where it's going it's easier to write everything you need to write and then wrap everything together at the end. It's like putting the corner pieces of a puzzle and then continue to build on the rest from there.

-- Selma.