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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/37992
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

This is my first attempt at writing a novel and I am learning in the process.

So my story is about a girl who is having an ordinary life with any standards and then she gets divorced and learns more about love and sex in spiritual traditions and finally sets out to find her inner self.

I had read novels like Da Vinci Code or Harry Potter where we anticipate what will be the end and these books create a page turning effect as we want to know what and how the end happens.

In my story, **the end is not as important as the story itself**. Also what will happen in the end is not and cannot be anticipated by the reader, at all, as to where the story begins, has nothing to do with where it ends. The story itself is the learning. It is not a comedy and not a suspense, it's a drama, without an interesting end.

I am thinking how can I create an effect in the story to make my readers constantly ask the question, how will this end?, like the novels I mentioned above.

Original score: 5