Fic thoughts
Dec. 18th, 2009 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightProbably not a good time to post this, but I've been mulling it over all day - endings are tricky, aren't they?
This isn't apropos of anything I've read recently, btw, unless it's something to do with the ridiculous amount of angst I inflicted on you all when I was unable to get the ending of my![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
noel_of_spike story to my satisfaction. But endings are tricky, aren't they?
Back when I read a lot of sci-fi (very long ago now), one of my favourite authors was CJ Cherryh. Don't know if any of you are familiar with her? Anyway, despite the fact I did at that time love her books to distraction, I don't think I ever read one with a wholly satisfactory ending. And she's a published author, with 40 books or more under her belt. What chance do we poor, benighted fanfic writers have?
So tell me, have you ever read anything where the end was 100% (or let's say 99%) satisfying, and if so, what was it?
Once I've thought of something myself, I'll come back and ETA this post.
This isn't apropos of anything I've read recently, btw, unless it's something to do with the ridiculous amount of angst I inflicted on you all when I was unable to get the ending of my
noel_of_spike story to my satisfaction. But endings are tricky, aren't they? Back when I read a lot of sci-fi (very long ago now), one of my favourite authors was CJ Cherryh. Don't know if any of you are familiar with her? Anyway, despite the fact I did at that time love her books to distraction, I don't think I ever read one with a wholly satisfactory ending. And she's a published author, with 40 books or more under her belt. What chance do we poor, benighted fanfic writers have?
So tell me, have you ever read anything where the end was 100% (or let's say 99%) satisfying, and if so, what was it?
Once I've thought of something myself, I'll come back and ETA this post.