Alternative endings

[djrip]

So a few things:

1) I actually have a plan to create a Patreon where all of my happy endings get dark ones, and vice versa. I have no idea if that'll be popular, but I'm gonna try it one of these days.

2) My noncon stories (while never violent) could basically  never end with "We're just kidding." I mean, I suppose I could write literally anything, but I always start with absurd premises which separate my story from reality... long before the noncon starts. Twisting back to, "it's all pretend!" would require such a mental lurch, that no reasonable reader would be happy.

3) Why would you feel bad about writing a noncon story? Should Steven King feel bad for all the characters he's murdered in his novels? It's fiction. I feel like writing mostly noncon makes me a pariah in these forums, but I can't bring myself to care. Real life rape is evil, but fortunately these are words on a computer screen, and no more evil than all the fictional murders that millions of players commit in GTA.

[EDIT] For clarification, I'm not suggesting that anyone should enjoy noncon. If you don't, then you don't. That's perfectly fine. But the idea of shaming a person for what they write on here... Oof. I'm not a fan of that.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek there. I didn't mean to suggest there was any shaming. She just expressed dislike for the subject matter, which made me think of all the other people in the world who are also bothered by it, and it made me want to put out there that I think of writing such things as a kind of service to the people who want to fantasize about or imagine or roleplay such things. I guess to me the perspective makes a difference - the perspective of the perpetrator may carry a connotation of enjoying being the perpetrator. Which is fine for stories that do that. But for me it's about the perspective of the victim, specifically to serve readers who want to imagine being the victim in that situation. Ie, a sort of roleplay.

I should avoid words like "every," I think.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

I was being a bit tongue in cheek there. I didn't mean to suggest there was any shaming. She just expressed dislike for the subject matter, which made me think of all the other people in the world who are also bothered by it, and it made me want to put out there that I think of writing such things as a kind of service to the people who want to fantasize about or imagine or roleplay such things. I guess to me the perspective makes a difference - the perspective of the perpetrator may carry a connotation of enjoying being the perpetrator. Which is fine for stories that do that. But for me it's about the perspective of the victim, specifically to serve readers who want to imagine being the victim in that situation. Ie, a sort of roleplay.

I should avoid words like "every," I think.

That's understandable.

I think I prefer stories written from the perspective of the victim, but I've written both. I find the fantasy of both dominating and being dominated arousing... but only as a fantasy obviously.

That may be the exact reason that I always place my stories in such far-fetched scenarios. If the scenario seems too believable, it's a turn off for me. I'll probably never write a story like, "a guy sees a woman, stalks her, and rapes her." I've actually noticed that the stalking scenes of certain stories creep me out more than the actual crime. I guess I just find it too real?

 

[MediocreAuthor]

But to steer the conversation back to the original topic:

Yes, I always create alternate endings, and since (as mentioned in my bio) all of my stories take place in a separate universe, alternate timelines are a constant consideration.

 

[tenyari]

Once I get attached to a character I want to know "what really happened". Even if it's a wholly fictional person in a wholly fictional universe.

An Alternative ending destroys that 'head canon' for me. Not only do I not like reading about such things, I could never do that to my own readers as a result.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Once I get attached to a character I want to know "what really happened". Even if it's a wholly fictional person in a wholly fictional universe.

An Alternative ending destroys that 'head canon' for me. Not only do I not like reading about such things, I could never do that to my own readers as a result.

See I've considered the idea that alternate endings might turn certain readers off. That said, Rick and Morty is really popular, and that's basically "Alternate Universe: The Show."

So basically, I treat it like a diverging time line. Two separate characters experienced an identical timeline, until the spit, and then they both get their own alternate endings.

So both things happened, simultaneously, to nearly identical characters. You may not care what happened to the temporal clone of the main character, but hopefully some readers will.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Honestly, I struggle to come up with a single good ending.

 

[MediocreAuthor]

Honestly, I struggle to come up with a single good ending.

I can relate, sometimes.

 

[Bazzle]

I will report back...

By publishing two endings in the same story...I think has basically confused the readers...I have not got any feed back at all from the story even after 2000 people have clicked on it...

Doh!

 

[alohadave]

I will report back...

By publishing two endings in the same story...I think has basically confused the readers...I have not got any feed back at all from the story even after 2000 people have clicked on it...

Doh!

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. My latest story has 5.6k views with no comments. Sometimes readers have nothing to say.

 

[Zenith77]

That doesn't necessarily mean anything. My latest story has 5.6k views with no comments. Sometimes readers have nothing to say.

I'm thinking of writing a non-con series about a reader who was forced to comment on everything he clicked on. Should be hot.

 

[Rob_Royale]

I'm thinking of writing a non-con series about a reader who was forced to comment on everything he clicked on. Should be hot.

Thanks for that. I needed a laugh this morning.