Happy endings? Sad endings?

[panyasan]

I like Austen for her wit and how she mocks any pretence and her books are fun to read. Liked the sensible sister from Sense and Sensibilty and Elizabeth Bennet. Don't care much about Emma - a bit too spoiled for my taste.
I also seems to sympathize with the clever outcasts in books. Any way I have to start caring about a person for a book to become a favorite.

[WarpGirl]

Silverbullet I like poetry too. I wasn't trying to mock anything.

[Linda]

Happy endings, sad endings, I like them both as long as they fit the story. Most of all I like endings that make you THINK.

[enterprikayak]

Sad endings are more fun to write somehow.

[Distracted]

Not for me. I like writing happy endings better. Touching bittersweet happy endings that make you cry when you write them are the best. You know, the "God, I'm good" endings.

[Alelou]

Touching bittersweet happy endings that make you cry when you write them are the best. You know, the "God, I'm good" endings.

LOL. Yes, those are definitely the most fun.

So much better than the damned "Okay, I've said everything I want to say, now how the hell do I get out of this without looking like a total amateur?" endings. (I just wrote one of those.)

[justTripn]

Alelou, you're a great writer but a terrible publicist, lol . . . . She just wrote another very nice story!!! It will go up today.

[justTripn]

Happy endings, sad endings, I like them both as long as they fit the story. Most of all I like endings that make you THINK.

YES! Another reason I like your stories so much.

[WarpGirl]

I like endings that feel REAL! Be that happy, sad, or somewhere in between if it feels real I love them. Case in point, Terra Prime was heartbreaking, that little girl dying YIKES! But it ended with hope, despite the pain and it felt real. Oh and Alelou's Having his baby was AWESOME!

[justTripn]

Yes, endings that leave you laughing and crying and applauding your computer screen. Everyone please try for that.

[Dinah]

It had never occurred to me that it would be harder to end a story than to begin one.

[WarpGirl]

Oh ending a chapter is harder than beginning one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Alelou]

It had never occurred to me that it would be harder to end a story than to begin one.

I'm not sure why, but I always think of the beginning as rough, something I can come back and fix as often as needed -- so I don't feel much pressure there -- but by the time I get to the ending (and quite often I do skip ahead to the ending), I'm somehow hoping it will come down to me like lightning from Zeus and give an additional layer of meaning to the whole thing.

Not that it actually happens that way nearly as often as I'd like, of course. In fanfic, I feel like I got there perhaps just a bit with Commander Tucker Has a Baby, the expanded version of Commander Tucker Falls in Love, and maybe the Locum, and not much else.

I have a novel suspended in the middle because the plot got so complicated it made my eyes cross, but I already wrote the ending and I love the ending. So somehow someday I have to go back and work it out properly just so I can get to that ending!

[Asso]

Mh... what sort of ending do I love?
Let's see... "mumble mumble"... So...

[justTripn]

I'm not sure why, but I always think of the beginning as rough, something I can come back and fix as often as needed -- so I don't feel much pressure there -- but by the time I get to the ending (and quite often I do skip ahead to the ending), I'm somehow hoping it will come down to me like lightning from Zeus and give an additional layer of meaning to the whole thing.

Yes, I also count on the lightning from Zeus, lol . . . which actually comes along and strikes more times than not. Just put away your story and wait a day or two.