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Thoughts
When I write fiction, I often feel like I’m not actually making it up, more channelling something that is real. I guess if you subscribe to the many-worlds theory, it’s at least possible. I can’t “force” a story in a direction I choose.
Sometimes it’s because I know how it ends, so everything in the story is leading to that. I can’t do tangents that might derail the train, no matter how fun it might be.
Other times, I have no conscious idea where it’s going but when the character eventually let me know, it’s exciting to see how it all fits together.
In the story series I’ve been posting, I have mostly known how it ends. The main thread focusses on Daniel and his story, I know. But part of the story was the fate of Jacob/Selmak and in Kali Destroys an unexpected thread showed up. I had absolutely no idea where that was going.
And today I found out what happened. I know all of what happend while they were missing, I know how they ended up as they are, and I know what happens next. I literally wanted to dance when this came to me, because it’s the perfect conclusion to this arc.
But it means I have to decide how to end the current story.
I can end A New Path on a positive note, but leave the Selmak thread “forgotten”. Or I can tie that thread into the end of the current story - but that would require a major cliffhanger ending. I don’t like to do that.
I have a about a month before I’ll post the last chapter of ANP, so I’ve got until then to decide.
Thoughts? Do you like cliffhangers?
Sometimes it’s because I know how it ends, so everything in the story is leading to that. I can’t do tangents that might derail the train, no matter how fun it might be.
Other times, I have no conscious idea where it’s going but when the character eventually let me know, it’s exciting to see how it all fits together.
In the story series I’ve been posting, I have mostly known how it ends. The main thread focusses on Daniel and his story, I know. But part of the story was the fate of Jacob/Selmak and in Kali Destroys an unexpected thread showed up. I had absolutely no idea where that was going.
And today I found out what happened. I know all of what happend while they were missing, I know how they ended up as they are, and I know what happens next. I literally wanted to dance when this came to me, because it’s the perfect conclusion to this arc.
But it means I have to decide how to end the current story.
I can end A New Path on a positive note, but leave the Selmak thread “forgotten”. Or I can tie that thread into the end of the current story - but that would require a major cliffhanger ending. I don’t like to do that.
I have a about a month before I’ll post the last chapter of ANP, so I’ve got until then to decide.
Thoughts? Do you like cliffhangers?
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