Do Love Stories Ever End?
Open ending VS HEA
If you could keep up with your favorite characters from fiction forever, would you?
Do you love the Knitty gritty details? Or do you like having it wrapped in a “happily ever after” bow?
One of my readers recently told me my story ended abruptly and I said, yeah.
It ends on an exciting and cute note. She said “Surely there’s one more chapter?”
I said, “Does it need an epilogue?”
Certainly after nearly 40+ chapters of sweet and frustrated dialogue, romping in the bed, and learning to work through working together while dating, readers deserve everything, right? Like this Tiktoker explains, we deserve every tidbit, right?? LOL
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Anyways, I reread the ending to Call Me Sir, and I’m content with the ending BECAUSE a love story never ends. Someone’s story isn’t over.
Maybe I could wrap it up and call it good, but I don’t want to. I’m going to add more. Will it eventually be a novella like Ace and Oliver’s? Perhaps. Or maybe it’ll be a full on novel. I’m not sure yet.
I believe in following where the characters take me. I do believe, there’s a character from both novels who is requesting some spotlight about her and her girlfriend, and I’m inclined to follow.
We’ll see.
That being said, I’m the author, so maybe I’m biased because I’m not the one handed a story. I’m handing out my work and seeing what people think. So reader, what are your thoughts?
What is a good ending for you?
Personally, I rarely feel content with an ending. There’s so much more to delve into, the slow moments, the agonies experiences then the repreaf and then the glimmer of hope that sprouts after the turmoil. I love to end mine on a sweet, sentimental moment with the promise of more. Because is it truly over?
I once read a novella about a couple and it was so lovely, a marriage of convenience that turned to love. I LOVED the ending that was open and how I could picture my version of it all.
Only, there was an epilogue where all the lovely stuff I dwelling on was uprooted. They didn’t stay in the little cabin and raise their family. They went to the big city and the husband became mayor or something. A few years later I’m still annoyed at my pretty little mental picture being tarnished and replaced with the author telling me a few big details, dropped like a water balloon on my head that I had to try and absorb.
The author did no wrong. But it certainly has effected how I wrap up a novel.
Is there an ending to a book that you absolutely cannot live with?
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Happy reading :)
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Ash