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Question of the Day - Part 4
mare:
As far as things I do that can be a pet peeve.
Definitely the open endings. I leave a lot up to my reader's imaginations and sometimes they dont like that or expect a sequel LOL
Sometimes my plots in my action/suspenses can be a little complex and sometimes hard to follow and keep straight.
And of course the cliff hangers. I am really bad with those things and I know it can be off putting to some, especially when I then go for a week or two without an update.
I think those are the three biggest fanfic offenses I tend to pull.
I'm sure there are plenty more! lol
FrickingKaos:
Mare I actually love your cliffhangers :) I tend to do that as well. Also sometimes the plot gets confusing, not sure if that comes across for my readers but nobody has called me on anything as of yet.
Rose:
--- Quote from: mare on July 25, 2012, 07:37:01 PM ---I LOVED Stephen King for ending the Dark Tower series the way he did though! LOVED LOVED LOVED!!! That was my kind of shiny bow!
I think when you do have a super long novel, the reader does expect a resolved ending. I think open endings truly work best in the suspense, action genres then just drama, romance etc... Although I do like how you ended RMTW, Rose. Even for a drama and we all kind of knew what was going to happen, you left it up to the reader to picture how that would be.
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Part of me was SO mad but another part of me loved it. It's why I can reread that series over and over LOL.
Yeah I wanted to wrap up enough so no one got mad, but for people to picture in their heads how bad Nick got. I felt like it didn't need the horrific detail on that LOL. So thank you :).
Rose:
Still thinking of a FF pet peeve I'm sure people can have with my stories.
Oh, I tend to sometimes live too much in the character's head, in 1st or 3rd person. So at times I may go and let them ramble in their heads a little too much with no purpose to it. Just because I'm writing and I'm letting them think and yeah.
Another would probably be that I have absolutely no problems killing people lol. I'm sure some would find my stories a bit too gore filled at times.
Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 25, 2012, 07:44:41 PM ---I really did think he was going to die and remember even saying at one point that if I were JKR, that's what I would do - have him sacrifice himself to kill Voldemort and save the world. But what I love about her brilliance is that she was able to do that... and still have him survive so we could have a full-on happy ending. It was the best of both worlds in my mind. And people definitely would have lost it if she had ended it with him walking into the forest! And I would have been one of them, OMG LOL.
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OMG if that had been how she ended DH I would've been LIVID lmfao. That would not have been okay LOL. I probably, if I'd been her, would've had no problem sacrificing Harry. I'm mean :P.
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