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 nostr:npub1l0vdfdq98n2ts5dr6ehdsm5638uc2sl4v6znfwtmu9dvrvmwcqsq90uvrp >Can you strengthen how you show that it has been solved at the end? If part if what you want to do is show that the problem is unsolvable (maybe you like bleak, depressing ends - I sometimes do) can you bring *that* out more strongly?

If the story just kinds peters out the reason is usually that you have characters and a situation, but you haven't clearly identified what you want to tell people about those characters in that situation, or there's no specific problem you've shown readers>