Have you ever read a book where the ending felt “rushed”? Where it was all action through the climax of the story and then before you know it… the end. It’s a sort of hollow victory, where even though there are no more pages the story remains unfinished in your psyche. This is where the denouement comes in. Deriving from the French verb denouer, which means to unwind or unknot, the denouement has come to mean the moment in a story where all the plot points are resolved, and all the loose threads pulled together. When writing a novel, however,...