The end

[Croctden]

Ever had trouble trying to end a story? I don't me your stuck and can't think how to tie up the loose ends. I mean the story just goes on and on. They've had sex (alot), any emotion discovery that is going to be made has been, but I keep typing away. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for, I just don't have close.

 

[TheEarl]

Been there. I can never seem to get my stories to stop, they just go on and on and on.

I usually just say something about her curling up in his arms and thinking about how they were going to have a long future together/how many more times they were gonna fuck/how this changed their relationship completely, etc. Bit of a shit ending, but it gets the job done.

Does that help?

The Earl

 

[snooper]

What's the problem?

Just leave the loose ends hanging and write a sequel for each end you left.

For example: A story has a boy screws girl, boy ditches girl basic plot.

Have the boy going off with another girl and the girl being consoled by another girl.

Lo and behold: readers avid for two more stories, one mf one ff.

 

[oggbashan]

And they lived happily ever after ...

Traditional endings work.

They sit side by side contemplating a rosy future.

They have kids and everything goes pear-shaped.

They get married.

One gets killed.

Both get killed.

They lose their jobs and have to rebuild their lives - see Part 2.

They decide that everybody should be as happy as they are and start a movement - see Part 2.

Etc.

 

[Octavian]

Or how about this one?

They saddled up their horses and rode off into the sunset.

Octavian

 

[Guest]

Croc: all the advice above is good stuff m'thinks. I'd add just keep writing and writing and writing. When you've got what looks like a good dozen or more pages just stop and put it to an editor. You might end up with a couple or more separate stories which you can then write and write and write on further and repeat the above. Or, you could submit them to Lit. and see what others think (screw the votes and all, just get yourself read; Earl's shit endings will do, haha).

Perdita
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Aside to Earl: I had no idea you had those tender thoughts.

Pear

 

[Octavian]

good advice?

Originally posted by perdita

Croc: all the advice above is good stuff m'thinks.

My advice certainly isn't!

Octavian

“Encase your majestic tree of manhood in the sublimely soft wondrous wet hallowed depths of my body,” she implored.
“Oh,” he replied, “you mean you wanna fuck!”

 

[Guest]

Re: good advice?

Originally posted by perdita
My advice certainly isn't!

“Encase your majestic tree of manhood in the sublimely soft wondrous wet hallowed depths of my body,” she implored.
“Oh,” he replied, “you mean you wanna fuck!”

No, Oct, I love riding into sunsets endings; make me all cozy and safe like. Your above quote works too, very portentous imagery to be left to diddle with.

Perdita

 

[TheEarl]

Aside to Earl: I had no idea you had those tender thoughts.

Haven't you ever noticed? Every single one of my stories has a happy ending and all but two have the protagonists ending up happily ever after together. Underneath the sarcasm, I'm just a big softie. Honest.

The Earl

 

[Guest]

Haven't you ever noticed? Every single one of my stories has a happy ending and all but two have the protagonists ending up happily ever after together. Underneath the sarcasm, I'm just a big softie. Honest.

Sorry, E. I had trouble separating your image from your 'image'; then there's the 'real' and real you. Oh, I get so mixed up when it comes to men.

Big soft squishy, but very maternal hug, Pear

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Type, type, type some more, type until you have to go to the loo, then go back and cut atleast 200 words from the end of what you just wrote. It doesn't matter if your story ends "...and as he looked, the...", just stop it!

 

[Guest]

It doesn't matter if your story ends "...and as he looked, the...", just stop it!

Wow, Flicka, are you like that under the covers? Tough girl.

Perdy

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I'm learning. My best friend, M, is one cool, cruel Bitch, when she wants to be, and she's teaching me.

Yesterday, this mouldy old cunt of a bus-stewardess was patronizing me, and instead of loosing my temper, I felt how I grew ice cold, and my eyes turned into burning ice, and I smiled sweetly, and slashed her open with my tongue. A guy sitting next to us on the bus tried to impress his girlfriend by being macho and telling me off, so I cut his balls off with two more tongue-slashes.

 

[Guest]

... A guy sitting next to us on the bus tried to impress his girlfriend by being macho and telling me off, so I cut his balls off with two more tongue-slashes.

Write a manual and post it.

Perdy, your trainee

 

[Svenskaflicka]

OK, that takes care of this years "How To" category.

 

[jfinn]

Ever had trouble trying to end a story? I don't me your stuck and can't think how to tie up the loose ends. I mean the story just goes on and on. They've had sex (alot), any emotion discovery that is going to be made has been, but I keep typing away. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for, I just don't have close.

This probably won't help you in this particular instance, but before I ever write a story I have an end that I know I'll be writing towards. Often that's the scene that gets me started in the first place, but even if it isn't, I don't start till I know what the end will be. I'm not always as sure about the middle, but the end has to be there.

Jayne

 

[wildsweetone]

Ever had trouble trying to end a story? I don't me your stuck and can't think how to tie up the loose ends. I mean the story just goes on and on. They've had sex (alot), any emotion discovery that is going to be made has been, but I keep typing away. I'm not sure what I'm waiting for, I just don't have close.

Hi Croctden,
I'm not sure how you write, but from what you've said it sounds to me like your characters have taken on lives of their own and you're just doing the scribing. Welcome to the world of writing!

Don't stop unless you're sick to death of it. Keep going and they'll tell you their story in their own way.

 

[Croctden]

Well yes...

I can just have them curl down and go to bed "the end," but I was hoping for something more creative on my part. It's hard to admit I don't have it.

 

[OneGoddess]

Endings...

I have never had any stories posted on this site but I have done erotica type stories for many years. Most of them are my own experiences or ones that have been told to me...I generally leave the story open ended so that if something else does come from it or I want to continue the adventures I can.

Ex:
1) He smiled as his cock softened inside of her and she looked at him with tenderness as they talked of what had happened and what could happen in the future if they so both desired it.

2) As she lay there panting for breath, he quietly slipped out, closing the door softly without a word.

3) As they rested...the thoughts flashed through their minds at the same time..."Where do we go from here, if anywhere?"

4) He thought guiltily, "What would Mary think of me? Sleeping with my boss!" Then he smiled and thought to himself..."Fuck it...it's my dick and my job!"

Sometimes an ending will not happen and to me that signifies that you simply aren't ready to end it or you are having way too much fun with it. In that case...keep writing til you find that ending.

Happy writing and good luck!! Hope this helps.

One

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Plot should tell you when to stop, without any conscious decisions to be made. Re-read the story and find where the plot lies, then re-write it, bringing the plot closer to the surface. That should alleviate the problem altogether.
If that doesn't work, then maybe there wasn't enough pot to hold the story together.

 

[Alex756]

Plot should tell you when to stop, without any conscious decisions to be made. Re-read the story and find where the plot lies, then re-write it, bringing the plot closer to the surface. That should alleviate the problem altogether.
If that doesn't work, then maybe there wasn't enough pot to hold the story together.

Personally, my stories always want to expand forwards and backwards. Its like the beginning and ending are relatively not important. As if the characters had a life before the story and continue having one after.

Heck I have a story that I stop reading before the final paragraph ause I like it better that way, and several people have decided thats the way they like it too .... but I still think it needs that last paragraph AND I still am not sure I didn't stop it too early.

I think with all my stories I think I stopped them before they were 'done' and began them while stuff was going on. But *sigh* unless I started with something like in the beginning there was just an expanse of ocean and then ended with and then the final moment of time ended, I think I would have the same problem.

I mean does all plot in a story ever end? I mean sure this item or that item is resolved, but ... then you get that feedback going 'I really hope you continue cause I am dying to know what happens next'

*shrug*
Alex756

Yes I'm being all literary again one freaking nomination and I got a big head
(*hides the crop back in the boot*)

OK I admit I'm trying to hit 100 so I can have a damn avatar

 

[Quiet_Cool]

Personally, my stories always want to expand forwards and backwards. Its like the beginning and ending are relatively not important. As if the characters had a life before the story and continue having one after.

Heck I have a story that I stop reading before the final paragraph ause I like it better that way, and several people have decided thats the way they like it too .... but I still think it needs that last paragraph AND I still am not sure I didn't stop it too early.

I think with all my stories I think I stopped them before they were 'done' and began them while stuff was going on. But *sigh* unless I started with something like in the beginning there was just an expanse of ocean and then ended with and then the final moment of time ended, I think I would have the same problem.

I mean does all plot in a story ever end? I mean sure this item or that item is resolved, but ... then you get that feedback going 'I really hope you continue cause I am dying to know what happens next'

*shrug*
Alex756

Yes I'm being all literary again one freaking nomination and I got a big head
(*hides the crop back in the boot*)

OK I admit I'm trying to hit 100 so I can have a damn avatar

You're saying yorself, though, that you feel that you might have finished this story too early, or that you prefer it with one less paragraph, and that you have a habit of starting things in the middle. That's a good sign in terms of your abilities as a writer, in both scenarios. But if you write something, and plot never tells you to stop, you've got to start wondering where the plot is to begin with.
Plot should tell you, okay, I've finished with the initial telling. What you do from there is up to you, editing, rewriting, etc. But plot will dictate whether or not it is necessary to continue, or whether or not the writer has already gone too far, in the same manner in which "characterization" might say "hold up, buddy. Tania doesn't do this. She's as such, and this way of acting just doesn't fit her character." The writer can put whatever he/she wants on paper, but whether it flows can be greatly affected by the choice of the writer to go outside the boundaries preset by either plot or characterization. Readers can pick up on these things, especially intelligent ones, or readers who are familiar with the craft of writing themselves.
Your viewpoint is good, that things go one before and after the story, but plot decides what needs to be told, as opposed to what can be told.

 

[Alex756]

You're saying yorself, though, that you feel that you might have finished this story too early, or that you prefer it with one less paragraph, and that you have a habit of starting things in the middle. That's a good sign in terms of your abilities as a writer, in both scenarios. But if you write something, and plot never tells you to stop, you've got to start wondering where the plot is to begin with.
Plot should tell you, okay, I've finished with the initial telling. What you do from there is up to you, editing, rewriting, etc. But plot will dictate whether or not it is necessary to continue, or whether or not the writer has already gone too far, in the same manner in which "characterization" might say "hold up, buddy. Tania doesn't do this. She's as such, and this way of acting just doesn't fit her character." The writer can put whatever he/she wants on paper, but whether it flows can be greatly affected by the choice of the writer to go outside the boundaries preset by either plot or characterization. Readers can pick up on these things, especially intelligent ones, or readers who are familiar with the craft of writing themselves.
Your viewpoint is good, that things go one before and after the story, but plot decides what needs to be told, as opposed to what can be told.

I think the problem here is you and I are thinking of plot in differant ways. I never write a single plotted thing. There are 'plots' that come, develope, and go, and at some point I decide the ones still up in the air can be left.

I do write more character driven than plot driven, partially becasue my plots are what the character wants for the most part. Hmm, which story have I writen that is short, not creepy, and demonstrates this.

OK I wrote a horror story, Mark goes to bar, mark sees girl, mark beats up guy hitting obnoxiouslly on girl, mark feeds off of the jerk, (mark's a half demon BTW) Mark picks up girl, girl and amrk go to hotel, they have sex, mark feeds a bit again, mark leaves. I coulda cut the story at the sex, at the feeding, at the leaving, or at at least another 5 points farther into the story. I could have started it earlier or later than I did, I chose the point I did solely because it was the easiest point to introduce the 2 main characters to each other. Heck I could have stopped telling the story with Mark having beaten up the obnoxious guy and heading back to the pretty girl, but that would have made it alot less erotic

I will probbaly write more about Mark, both before this scene and after this scene, perhaps even butting the stories up to each other to be continuous. Mark's 'main' plot of being a half bred misfit is barely touched in this short thing, and the story of Mark and Shelly definately goes on after I left off, but it seemed a relatively tidy place to cut it off.

Things I write never tie up on neat and tidy and 'they lived happily ever after' there is always a sense of it goes on, just you aren't privy to that information. But I don't think I've ever read anything that has captured my magination where it didn't leave you thinking about what happened after the story ended.

Alex756

if endings were just when the plot ran out, sequels wouldn't exist.

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I think the problem here is you and I are thinking of plot in differant ways. I never write a single plotted thing. There are 'plots' that come, develope, and go, and at some point I decide the ones still up in the air can be left.

I do write more character driven than plot driven, partially becasue my plots are what the character wants for the most part. Hmm, which story have I writen that is short, not creepy, and demonstrates this.

OK I wrote a horror story, Mark goes to bar, mark sees girl, mark beats up guy hitting obnoxiouslly on girl, mark feeds off of the jerk, (mark's a half demon BTW) Mark picks up girl, girl and amrk go to hotel, they have sex, mark feeds a bit again, mark leaves. I coulda cut the story at the sex, at the feeding, at the leaving, or at at least another 5 points farther into the story. I could have started it earlier or later than I did, I chose the point I did solely because it was the easiest point to introduce the 2 main characters to each other. Heck I could have stopped telling the story with Mark having beaten up the obnoxious guy and heading back to the pretty girl, but that would have made it alot less erotic

I will probbaly write more about Mark, both before this scene and after this scene, perhaps even butting the stories up to each other to be continuous. Mark's 'main' plot of being a half bred misfit is barely touched in this short thing, and the story of Mark and Shelly definately goes on after I left off, but it seemed a relatively tidy place to cut it off.

Things I write never tie up on neat and tidy and 'they lived happily ever after' there is always a sense of it goes on, just you aren't privy to that information. But I don't think I've ever read anything that has captured my magination where it didn't leave you thinking about what happened after the story ended.

Alex756

if endings were just when the plot ran out, sequels wouldn't exist.

"Daemonology: The Cowboy" Yes?

Let's agree that we view the same matter from two perspectives and, to a limited degree, agree to disagree. Sound good?

 

[Alex756]

"Daemonology: The Cowboy" Yes?

Let's agree that we view the same matter from two perspectives and, to a limited degree, agree to disagree. Sound good?

Ahhh how sweet, yah spelt it the right way as opposed to the way I can get it posted being spelt .. and yes

And I agree to disagree just wanted to make sure no one thought they were fucking up big time if they didn't know when to end something





Alex756