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Ugh... Great minds thinking alike in the fan fic world
honey:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 02, 2008, 12:12:04 AM ---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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lol this is true. but my stories usually tend to merit happy endings. I think Searching For Mecy was the closest thing I've ever written to a not perfect ending and it was that I just couldn't end it fluffy when all those messed up people weren't fluffy. but then Searching For Mercy isn't my best story either. So maybe I should just leave the angst up to the pros...
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: MellzBellz on February 02, 2008, 12:10:49 AM ---
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.
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That's a good point, about looking at whose opinions you really value. I kinda figured that out too. For instance, one of the people who kinda turned on my characters early on in BMS, yet continued to read and send feedback, was a writer herself and wrote a completely different kind of romance than what BMS is, and I realized after awhile that she just didn't "get" it. She didn't "get" what I was going for. Whereas other people were totally on the same page as me; they "got" Nick and Claire and their relationship and so on. So I put more value in their feedback than the other's. Although when one of those turned and started critiquing, then it sucked because I knew she had a point in what she was saying.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: honey on February 02, 2008, 12:14:51 AM ---lol this is true. but my stories usually tend to merit happy endings. I think Searching For Mecy was the closest thing I've ever written to a not perfect ending and it was that I just couldn't end it fluffy when all those messed up people weren't fluffy. but then Searching For Mercy isn't my best story either. So maybe I should just leave the angst up to the pros...
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Well, I'd say you're the expert on fluffy. lol So maybe I should just leave fluffy romances to you through that logic. lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 02, 2008, 12:12:04 AM ---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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Well, yeah LOL. You have to go with what you think is the right way to end it, whether it's happy, sad, or bittersweet, and no matter what your readers will think.
honey:
lol I'd say I'm a fan of fluffy. I'm hardly an expert on anything.
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