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SaltyDog

Sage
I really don't like unsatisfactory endings in great series. Really, Really don't. AND that is exactly what the author of a series I was reading did. Argh. Don't get me wrong, it was brilliant, just not the way I wanted it to end.
 
Ireth

Ireth

Myth Weaver
SaltyDog said:
I really don't like unsatisfactory endings in great series. Really, Really don't. AND that is exactly what the author of a series I was reading did. Argh. Don't get me wrong, it was brilliant, just not the way I wanted it to end.
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Which series?
 
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SaltyDog

Sage
Chronicle of the Unhewn Throne trilogy, Brian Stavely. It was a fantastic read, and I probably should of expected the ending from the way the books were written, the theme, but I can hope right? Ya know, happy ending, where they live for the rest of their lives in peace. Nope, lol. Still a great series though.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Vala
SaltyDog said:
Lol. I'm always hoping for a better ending, but how it really turns out? Only the paper and the pen truly know.
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I would at least like to leave my main characters and their love interests alive. Scarred and crippled both physically and mentally, yes, but alive. I'm actually scared for the life of one of the MC's love interests. I'm not planning on him dying, but, honestly, do i have any control over it?? It could happen and I would have to just watch.

After reading a depressing ending that left me depressed for two weeks, i have no desire to do anything similar...I don't want to have my readers invest emotionally in a story only to end it in a cheaply manipulative way and leave them feeling like life is pointless (not to mention poison them against reading my future books or recommending my books...)

Happy ending? I would like one, yeah. Happily ever after? Nah. No one gets one of those. Life goes on. You have to live with the scars of your past and carry on into the battles of the future.
 
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SaltyDog

Sage
For me? I don't know. Lol probably not. "I've killed a lot of people, and I'm not afraid to fill even more graves before this is finished." Says the serial writer. Lol I don't even know if there can be an ending where the good guys are still alive. (I wonder if I would publicly committing suicide with my career as a writer if I did that.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Vala
SaltyDog said:
For me? I don't know. Lol probably not. "I've killed a lot of people, and I'm not afraid to fill even more graves before this is finished." Says the serial writer. Lol I don't even know if there can be an ending where the good guys are still alive. (I wonder if I would publicly committing suicide with my career as a writer if I did that.
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If you killed everyone, I probably wouldn't read any more of your stuff...not unless you had a very good reason for it...

Indiscriminate killing is a trend, some kind of badge of merit, I think. Something in us admires the nerve and daring of writers in whose stories no one is safe...I really do hate stories where i feel like there's a shield around the main characters, protecting them from the possibility of harm because the author wouldn't. You KNOW they wouldn't. But i like quality over quantity. Instead of killing lots of people, make the deaths meaningful and painful and horribly cruel.

But...I hate books that make me feel awful anyway. All my friends thought I was crazy when i got so depressed over that one book, but it actually had a terrible effect on my mood and I don't want to go through that again...
 
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SaltyDog

Sage
Yep, probably shouldn't do it. Not that I don't play with the fantasy, of course. Well, the plot shield is none existent in my world. One of my big three will die most likely. What book got you so depressed?
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Vala
I do have some pretty devastating deaths toward the end. A quite large number of them (various depending on how things turn out when i actually WRITE the thing) Also, plenty of torture, mutilation, stuff like that. Fun times.
 
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SaltyDog

Sage
DragonOfTheAerie said:
I do have some pretty devastating deaths toward the end. A quite large number of them (various depending on how things turn out when i actually WRITE the thing) Also, plenty of torture, mutilation, stuff like that. Fun times.
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Sounds like it! lol. I have a lot reasons though if I want to kill a bunch of people, the setting is in a continent torn to shreds by a massive civil war , so you could imagine all the fun I could have with it, lol.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Vala
SaltyDog said:
Sounds like it! lol. I have a lot reasons though if I want to kill a bunch of people, the setting is in a continent torn to shreds by a massive civil war , so you could imagine all the fun I could have with it, lol.
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Yup.

I was in a restaurant the other day with my irl writer friend and we were talking about all the people we would kill and how they die and everything...Everyone was listening and staring at us. We were freaking everyone out. It was great.
 
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SaltyDog

Sage
DragonOfTheAerie said:
Yup.

I was in a restaurant the other day with my irl writer friend and we were talking about all the people we would kill and how they die and everything...Everyone was listening and staring at us. We were freaking everyone out. It was great.
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Hilarious! Man just the picture gives me a smile!
 
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