Metacognition: Short Story

For awhile now, we have been working on writing short stories in our English class. I had never written a short story before this experience and didn't really know what to expect when I started out. The first step we took was to write out a story fragment, which just got down some of our ideas for what we generally thought our story would be about. Then, we wrote out the beginning and middle of our story and got feedback from our teacher. After my first draft, I ended up changing basically the entire plotline of my story because I really didn't know where it was going. I found that by keeping my character, but changing the story made it better. Once we wrote our second drafts of the beginning and middle, we had to write an ending to our stories. I thought that this was the most difficult part because I really wasn't sure how I wanted to end the story and didn't know how to tell when it was over. Eventually, I think I figure it out, but I'm not sure how it will sound to other people when they read it. Hopefully my teacher will have some good advice on how to make my ending stronger.