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Epilogue: It is the conclusion of your book, which is mentioned at the end of your story.
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Writing a novel is not everyone’s cup of tea. It requires lot of hard work with patience. You need to be creative and at the same time realistic to be a successful writer. You need to have deep knowledge about every single and smallest thing that is part of your novel. Penning down an interesting plot and creating a perfect story around it, has a sort of grilling in it. Additional pages like introduction, prologue, acknowledgment, epilogue, etc adds more to this grilling. • Epilogue, a short piece of writing that is usually written at the end of a literary work. There are various ways in which an epilogue can be written. Today, in this article, we will discuss some of the ways to write an epilogue, we will see whether a story needs an epilogue or not and we will discuss some ways to write a perfect epilogue. You can use this knowledge in your next novel in order to make it a best one. These short and simple things has significant contribution in success of a novel. Make the best use of points mentioned below and we hope you can achieve success.
Is your story in need of an epilogue? Before writing an epilogue, the first question is whether the story demands an epilogue or not. Never ever add any unnecessary descriptions and elaborations in your novel. Give only what is needed. If you think that you need to describe few more situations in your novel then first see if those are relevant. Decide whether those incidents can be added anywhere else in the story. If yes, then your story don’t need any epilogue.
Reasons that show your story demands an epilogue If you want to annex some incidence that has some link with what happened in the story but doesn’t involve characters of the story, you can tell that incidence in an epilogue.
An epilogue is also used to tell an incident that happened long after the end of your story. For instance, if you have written a romance novel and end of the story describes the couples being happy together instead of all the turmoil's they had faced. Then, in epilogue you can tell about their marriage. You may think of adding an incident that shows that after sometime the couple got separated. Well, if you are planning to that then let me tell you that usually an epilogue is prohibited to have any shocking revelation especially if it is a negative one. • Sometimes, writers use an epilogue to give a glimpse of next volume of the novel. They use an epilogue as a platform to promote the upcoming volume of the novel. You can use an epilogue to describe the moral of the story as well. This is the best place to make a remark or statement. You can present your view on the story. It can also be used to draw comparison of story with real life events. A gamut of incidence can be embraced in an epilogue.
Plan your epilogue as you would plan you story Epilogue is a short direct description of incidence that you want to include in it. Plan it wisely using your senses and do not end up writing a new book and story in it. Write whatever you think is important and must be adjoined. Later, cut it down as you would do in the story. Try to make your epilogue short. Keep in mind that it is not a story. When you write out everything that comes in your mind first and then edit it, it gives the best and perfect results.
When to write an epilogue? • If your story has a traumatic end or violent climax then you should write an epilogue. You can write an epilogue if your story ends abruptly like if the main character dies. A bit of explanation after an abrupt ending satisfy the need of reader to know more about the story and that enhances your sale as well. Readers, generally want to know the full story. So, you must feed them properly. In epilogue of such novels, you can use epilogue in various ways. You can use it to create buzz about your next novel that can be a extension of this novel. You may also choose to end this story there only and can just give a brief description about other main character of your novel. This doesn’t mean that you can never write another volume of the novel.
Know your best from your own experience • No two authors are same. It depends totally upon you how to write and what to write. Also, there is no hard and fast rule to it. You best way can be another’s worst. Learn from your experience. See and observe what your audience want and make changes accordingly in your next novel. Read other novels of the same genre and see how they have written their epilogue. Do not copy, never ever do the mistake of copying. Reading other’s work is just for increasing the knowledge and having a better and clear perspective. Do not try to imitate or mimic others. Be original and creative in your work that will give you much more success.
Some additional tips • Though it depends on author how he wants to write epilogue and what new turn he wants to give, here are some general points that need to be considered. If you want to write another volume of the book, use your epilogue to create interest and enthusiasm in your reader. Know what is the key point of your next volume and use it as a tool to make your readers curious. You need to be playful with your words. Tell a scene that can make readers passionate about the next volume. Even if you are using epilogue as a closure key, try to give a little information about the side characters as well. Main characters are important but so are their friends and family.
Let your story rest for a day or two • After you are done with your story writing and epilogue, prologue, acknowledgment, introduction, etc are all set and done. Let your manuscript rest for at least a day before starting to proofread it. This will give you time to come out of the story and help you proofread better. While proofreading you must proofread whole book. Writers do this mistake of proofreading only the story part. They forget that from acknowledgment to epilogue, each and every part is prone to errors.
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