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Ending Options That Pay Off Your Setup
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Summary of the book up to the climax: {{SUMMARY_TO_CLIMAX}}
My current ending: {{CURRENT_ENDING}}
What I want readers to feel when they close the book: {{DESIRED_FEELING}}
Do this in order:
1. List every promise the book makes before the climax: questions raised, setups planted, skills or objects introduced, relationships left unresolved. Use my summary as the source.
2. Check my current ending against that list. Which promises does it keep, break or ignore?
3. Check that the protagonist resolves the climax through their own choice and growth, not luck or rescue.
4. Offer three alternative ending shapes (for example, win with a cost, lose but grow, a choice between two goods). For each, give only a short sketch built from existing story elements, plus the setups I'd need to add or strengthen earlier.
5. Tell me which feels most in line with the feeling I want, with one sentence of reasoning.
Don't write the ending scene itself. I want options and a checklist, then I'll write it.
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“Ending Options That Pay Off Your Setup” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Writing & Creative category, 192 words long, added to The Prompt Index on October 28, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.
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{{SUMMARY_TO_CLIMAX}}, {{CURRENT_ENDING}}, {{DESIRED_FEELING}}.
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