The Ending

Lately my ending have been two things.

One, they've been leaving me feeling incredibly uncertain about whether or not they're the right ending.

Two, they've been unclimatic and simple. The White Lie and After He Unlocked the Door are examples.

My favourite ending in one of my stories was my Frerard, Show Business. The end and the second chapter came to me before anything else, and they sort of bookend the story. The end is quite comedic. I laughed about it a lot after i wrote it. I even had a little giggle to myself yesterday about it, and i finished it way back in November. But i dunno, maybe it's only me that finds it funny. :file:

Today. is going to have a shock ending.

As i have said on another thread, it's okay for me to tell you all this because no one's really reading it anyway except my 'beta' and one of my friends, both of whom know there is a shock ending and know what happens. Jeez, i must look like a real whinger. It seems everytime i mention 'Today.' on this forum nowadays i put a bitter little comment about its unpopularity. I need to stop that.

My one-shots usually end in death, or just sad. Sometimes, it's sad, but there's hope.

My stories...
Fairytale happy endings, for some of them.
I know I'm planning on PA...
well..It won't be that happy. (:

It's really just about when the story ends, where the story's at as it's about to end, I think.

I tend to make them happy. Yet sometimes I have tragic endings.

I really like happy endings. I'm sorry, I do! Happy endings all the way!

I love ambigious endings, where you don't know what happens. I just can't bear to not let the reader imagine more of the story or how it ended.

I'm an egocentric fuck, but the ending from ¿Qué iba a hacer ahora?[/url]-->¿Qué iba a hacer ahora? is probably my favorite ending ever.
First it goes End of Story. I don't remember the ending. I don't think I wanted to read it. I don't like endings, stories go on forever in infinity. Stories never end. in a totally absurd manner during the normal flow of the story; then I ramble some more about books and stories to end it with: There's no End to this story.
It's just the perfect ending.

I like to end stories with a sort of witty comment, or something like that.
But mostly, I end chapters with things of that sort, or cliffhangers.

Chapter #15 (Adelaide. Jersey. New Jersey. What?) of Boys Like You Are So Overrated ended with:
"It's not perfection," He kissed me softly, "It's love."
and that made me smile, I like endings like that too.

Kitchen Floor ended with one of the witty comments, where Ryan's Secret ended with death, and the last sentence is just...meaningful, I guess.

I've got to say that my favorite kinds of endings are meaningful, witty or just end up with everything...sorted? Everything's just like worked out. :)

I like to end my story with either all questions answered or everything to be interpreted.
I like to be an asshole and make my reader freak out because the event I end on could lead in so many paths. Leave them with nothing to feed off. Then other times, I satisfy them.

Dark.:

I'm an egocentric fuck, but the ending from ¿Qué iba a hacer ahora?[/url]-->¿Qué iba a hacer ahora? is probably my favorite ending ever. First it goes End of Story. I don't remember the ending. I don't think I wanted to read it. I don't like endings, stories go on forever in infinity. Stories never end. in a totally absurd manner during the normal flow of the story; then I ramble some more about books and stories to end it with: There's no End to this story. It's just the perfect ending.

Yeah, I loved it. I think it's brilliant.

I tend to end with one short sentence when the ending is a positive exhortation/advice type of thing or a request/plea.

I also like to end with a sentence consisting of just four or five words which starts with ‘and’.

Sometimes I end the story similar to how it began. Like in Lasciate Ogne Speranza, Voi Ch'intrate where in the beginning the main character talks about how his name isn’t Dante and in the end he returns to how he’ll never reveal his real name. And Hunted ends similar to how it begins. It beings and ends with the main character thinking about how he has lost track of time.

I have open endings as well, like in Choreographed Denial and Downpour.

It happens that I write endings that aren’t really endings; they just cut off the story before it “should” end. Like in Unfamiliar Eyes and I Whish it helped to Whish.

When it comes to the way I end chapters it’s often cliff-hangers. Except for “You Just Never Know”. Those chapters usually just…end. :XD
My chapters rarely end in a positive or happy way though, cliff-hanger or not.

What's in a name?:

Sometimes I end the story similar to how it began.

It happens that I write endings that aren’t really endings; they just cut
off the story before it “should” end.

When it comes to the way I end chapters it’s often cliff-hangers.

I do those too. Sometimes there's this repeating phrase or paragraph that I use all throughout, as beginning and ending.

And I cut off too. Like, a line of dialogue, and end! I leave it to the readers what happened afterwards. Like open endings or cliffhangers, where a lot of things are unresolved, and I leave it to the reader to make it happy or sad [but more often than not, I hint at a sad outcome:XD]

I actually want to change mine. The best endings are ones where everything is all tied up, but you sort of get the sense that it's not "over". So, like, the big problem is solved, but there's still some action that will continue after the book is over.

Mine will definitely end in death. (A Thousand Souls)
Wow, that's a spoiler, but I'm sure my readers are kind of expecting that kind of ending in my story already so it doesn't really matter XD

I guess mine always tend to be happy or bittersweet because I am obsessed with closure (therefore I CANNOT do cliffhangers at all.)
Well, in my opinion my stories end the way they have to, or the way they are supposed to... like I don't plan them from the beginning they just come to me as I'm writing. I try to do what's right for every character and tie up loose ends for the most part, and if in the process it's too happy for you oh well...
[hope at least some of that made sense.]

Mine depend on the story and what the general tone of them are. The ones that do end happy usually end like that because I've put the characters through so much already. Mostly though, they're bittersweet, which is probably because I kill one somebody during the story. I've been told I have problems with that.

I think ending your story with a cliffhanger is a good way to go though, because then people can really think about what happened and think about how they would want it to end.

All of my stories have a happy ending. I don't like making sad endings.
Although in saying that, I just ended And If Your Heart Stops Beating. It was happy for the characters in the story, but sad for some of the readers who were sad that it ended. But I never make the endings for the characters sad.

Another thing I do with endings, is I resolve everything. I hate it when you read a story or watch a movie and there are still questions left unanswered. I think it's important to bring everything together because if not, then it's gonna suck.

Also, the ending is the last chapter everyone reads, so if it sucks, it will have a big impact on a story, whereas if it's good, everyone will remember that story.

Some kind of Deux ex Machina is a habit for me. :XD
You know, if I actually finish a chaptered story... but the endings in my head, they're not so much happy as everything is back in it's place and it's not so bad after all.

Or they're apocolyptic. Like my big unposted thing with the pictures and stuff. It makes sense, because this place shouldn't really exist and all and is clinging onto existence by the skin of it's teeth, but it's going to finish with the whole town just... imploding. All these situations are going to be playing out, like things that just... two characters are just about to kiss for the first time, one is lying in a hospital bed and has just started flatlining, one has a gun to another's head and is just about to exact long-awaited revenge, and... the town implodes. Ta-da! So that's a little like reverse Deux ex Machina (I love that phrase, and all it means...), because you couldn't really tie that story up to make a neat ending, but to be fair it's the ending I had in mind all along, so it's not like an escape route.

I'm thinking I'm going to end one of mine with a sad/tragic ending, something really sad, just because the whole story seems to have that feel to it. But I know how "CorpseGrinder" ends, and its pretty happy I suppose, after the killing.

I like happy endings as much as anyone else, sure, but not everything in life ends happily. I tend to take a realistic approach with everything I write, and as such...not everything I write will end happily.

I think the end of my current MCR fic, No Man's Land, will be bittersweet at best. Enough closure that my readers won't crawl through my computer screen Samara Morgan-style and strangle me, but not rainbows-n-butterflies happy.

To the Bones obviously had a very sad ending. It was done that way on purpose. It was premeditated. I knew that if it ended happily, with a cure and a kiss, that it wouldn't have hardly any effect. It might have some, but nowhere near the impact I wanted it to. I wanted the last chapter to be a punch to the stomach.