Not Wanting To Finish A Story?
These days, I try to isolate and understand a few more writing matters, that I hadn’t perused before, and I’ve been wondering if it’s very unusual for an author to find herself, to say it simply, not wanting to finish a story? Not for fear of failure or rejection, that is, but for the sake of keeping the characters ‘alive’ for a little longer.
Coming from a RPG background and from campaigns/chronicles that would last for months if not for years, I think I took a few bad habits, in that I want to keep the story going for as long as possible before putting an end to it. However, this doesn’t work well for novels, lest for short stories. When I find myself in the position of reader, part of me wants to world and characters to go on existing, yet part of me also wants the whole plot to get to a conclusion at some point–no neverending series of a gazillion of books that tends to all look like each other after a while.Read More