Karl Whitney: Looking for the right ending? Try taking two steps back

Finding the right ending is not always obvious but the best part of being a writer is not to get distracted by conclusions, rather to get lost in the joy of the work

Karl Whitney has been writing for newspapers for 27 years now. His start, strangely enough, came not in Irish papers but at ‘The Guardian’ in the UK. File picture: iStock

And so, I wish to conclude by saying……By saying what? This will be the final column, and I want to discuss endings.

Finding the right ending can be hard. You’ve begun to gallop through the writing and, suddenly, you find yourself having to tie up loose ends, slow down, stop.