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Ugh... Great minds thinking alike in the fan fic world
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: honey on February 02, 2008, 12:06:24 AM ---LMAO, DEE, don't listen! No taking notes right now! HAPPY ENDINGS!!! HAPPY ENDINGS!!! HAPPY ENDINGS!!!! YAY HAPPY ENDINGS!!!
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I thought of this briefly and laughed when I posted my own response to that. lol
honey:
lol I live for fairy-tale endings.
RokofAges75:
My theory on endings is this:
If the whole story is fluffy happiness, throw in a sad or at least bittersweet ending to change it up.
If the whole story is gloom and doom, then come on, at least let it end well!
I prefer the latter myself.
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 02, 2008, 12:02:31 AM ---I will always prefer angst to fluff. I got crap from my readers too, but at the same time, it did keep them coming back for more. (Well, most of them.) The thing is, I didn't purposely do that just to keep the readers' interest... it was more to keep MY interest. Because like I said, I prefer drama to fluff. I had fun with the fluffy scenes that are in BMS, but when it came time to break up Nick and Claire, I was SO ready to do it! And then, of course, I was ready to get them back together way before I actually could, but if I had tried to write another story with them together the whole way through, I would have just gotten bored again. And I would have come up with more sources of external conflict, most likely resulting in physical pain for one or both of them, because that's just what I do LOL. But it was so overdone in those stories already that I knew I just needed to STOP. I have a whole plot outline for a third story written out, after getting some ideas from readers, but it's so over the top that I kinda always knew I would never write it.
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I think its important not to overstay your welcome. I mean in some instances you can get a whole series out of characters, but I think a 3rd Broken story would have been too much. They went through SOOOO much already, yet I'd be bored with a story that just was lovey dovey Claire and Nick popping out some more kids. I definitely prefer the angst too and I got a lot of crap cuz UMS wasn't a "happy ending." But I know that I'm not the only one getting crap and I finally looked at who the comments had been coming from and I realized that I don't exactly value those people's opinions the best anyway. I now feel confident in what I've decided to write. And if readers want to read fluff about perfect marriages with perfect sex lifes and perfect children then there are quite a few out of them, but I think that the BEST writers are the ones who aren't afraid to experiment with the darker side of emotions. That's why I LOVE angst and I feel like so many readers are disregarding it lately.
nicksgal:
My actually theory on endings is to give the story the ending that serves the story. You shouldn't go out of your way to end it happily or sad if it will just ruin the story in the end. :)
But most of my stories seem to end depressingly.l ol
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