For whatever reason, dinner around the table tonight was great. It usually is, but occasionally an evening rises above. The round-robin subject in this instance was Story. We started with Stargate and Star Trek: Voyager and from those somewhat dubious-examples extracted this truth: It ain't over till the good guys win.
I have to blame this on God because if humanity was left to itself we'd all end up like Stephen King. But because God has been raising up "good guys" to carry on the fight for so long now, it has become our norm. (Credit to Boomer for that one.) Deep down we know there is always an act three, there is always a resistance, the bad guy never actually wins. Cynics will try to convince us that "Not all stories are happily-ever-after" and then write plays like Glass Menagerie. But we know better. And so do they. If the bad guy is winning the story can't be done. In the end, morality does sell, and only good vs. evil keeps people coming back for centuries.
So my challenge to you is Why buck reality? Write a happy ending.
1 comment:
in the writers world its more fun to write a terrible ending, especially if you kill your characture after making the reader attatched to them, but when I pick up somthing to read I cant stand it when it ends badly. funny huh! These are the mysteries in life I am enjoying sortintg out.
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