The Ending

I always write super dramatic endings, that no one see's coming. They usually end up like Shakespeare's tragedies.

Mine are always happy.
I'm a sucker for happy endings.

I don't really know how Just Sleep is going to end.
My endings are generally happy or bittersweet.
Some of my short little drabbles are sad, but if I write a chaptered story it usually ends happily. Because I'm a sap.

I have a sense of where Fireflies is going to end, but I just have to fine-tune the rest.
I just sort of keep writing until it naturally stops, as I don't like to push it beyond what it needs. I fear sounding repetitive, and that the excess takes away from the original meaning behind the story.

I like endings that don't wrap up absolutely everything, but more wrap up that particular moment. This works best for oneshots.

druscilla headline.:

I like endings that don't wrap up absolutely everything, but more wrap up that particular moment. This works best for oneshots.

Best endings ever.

Also. Endings that don't promise that everything is perfect.

My oneshots mostly end badly. I just kill them off and boom. Ending.
If it's a happy oneshot, well, I probably end it with something cute or humorous. Or try to.

As for SOD, my only chaptered atm, I have the ending. I had it before I wrote the first chapter. It's very final, but at the same time leaves things open. It's the only way it CAN end, in fact. But it's all closed up with the epilogue, and it'll all...settle in.

robert smith:

Endings that don't promise that everything is perfect.

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I guess the only kind of ending I'll never write is a sweet, fluffy, happy one. I can make it hopeful, tragic, bittersweet, nostalgic, depressing... just not sweet and fluffy. I can't find it in me to do so.

I think an ending is what can make someone either remember a story or forget it altogether. The beginning is what may draw them in or not, but the ending... to me, it's the most important part of a story.

I love happy endings, but at the same time I'm a realist. I'm afraid I'm a pretty paradoxical person. Sadly, most of the stories that I think are well written and that I love end sadly, or they leave off in a real way, not exactly happy, not exactly sad.

Sigh. But I am a sucker for happy endings. I just can't write them, or I don't like to. I was meant to leave people crying.

I like sad endings, or at least bittersweet. I've never written a happy ending, and I don't think I ever will. I just don't like them, never have.

I write the type of ending that works with the story. If a story needs to end bittersweet or on a sad note, I wouldn't force a happy ending just for the sake of smiles.

Sad these days, with the tiniest inkling of hope or happiness sometimes.

chrissie.:

Also. Endings that don't promise that everything is perfect.

^ I love these. Especially in one shots.

I like to write open-ish endings. Ones that suggest what's going to happen in the end, but they don't actually say it and everything isn't wrapped up properly.

My stories, as of late, don't tend to end. Not really. You just stop seeing what happens.

The same way I tend to start a story in the middle of a scene, I end them like that as well.

I'm also fond of full-circle moments.

dru kisses back.:

Does anyone else have problems sometimes knowing when the end is? Like, you're writing and you think it's the end, but you're not sure?

Dude, I get what you mean. That happened to me with a recent project; I had planned for a while exactly how I wanted it to end. I knew it was supposed to just stop at a certain point, but the next thing I knew I was still writing. At this very second, I am still not satisfied with where I finally did make myself end it.

I guess mine are usually bitterswet, or if they're happy, they need to be well-deserved.

I ended Thirty Stories Up about five times, but just kept going. That story was a bitch to end.

Learning to Fall was hard, too, because I knew it need something that was climatic, but I also didn't want it to be super cheesy or a total set-up for the sequel.

Most of my endings are very simple. Just someone saying something or looking at the sky or something. 'Cause my endings are more an ending to the scene than the story. The story keeps going when I'm done typing.

chrissie.:

Also. Endings that don't promise that everything is perfect.

LIKE THE ENDING TO RABBIT HOLE OMFGOIEJFI*OJEMIOEJFOI

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I like bittersweet endings. I usually only give happy endings to the characters/stories that really deserve them, like they've gone through such a horrible plot that they need some kind of reward for going along with my torture

Also, the real ending always takes place in an epilogue for my chaptered stories. I have this thing for writing them.

I actually love writing depressing endings, but I hate reading them. Huge hypocrite.