Andrea,
one of my online students, send me a great question this week: "I
haven't quite decided how my story is going to end," she wrote. "I have
been mulling this very question for months, and I cannot come up with
an answer. It's really perplexing and I think it's keeping me from
moving forward."
She also mentioned being worried about covering too much time in
her novel (one whole year). Funny thing, these two questions are
related. If you solve one, you can solve the other.