Too much thinking?

[thatrcooper]

You know, I don't know why I write so much or why I feel the need to show every little thing a character is feeling, but it really makes stories go long. Usually much, much longer than I'd intended.

I mean, I plot out an arc about growth and realization (and love and sex) and I swear, I never think it's going to end up as complicated and drawn out as it always does. And it all feels essential and right (if in need of trimming and cutting out my insane love of commas). Then, 350 pages later, I realize that no way would anyone sit through 400 pages of fluffy romance (or 475 pages of non fluffy romance, in the case of Ideas of Sin) and I have to make cuts.

Which leaves me wondering if I could end something, say the Charlie and Will manuscript, which has not even been titled for all that it's now epic length, earlier than I'd intended and if it would still seem complete to people.  If maybe I'm the only one who needs the After.

Because seriously, my endings are um...a bit anticlimactic, really. Aren't they? 475 pages of struggle and then...something small. They walk away. He says a name. They open a door, etc...

Or it's just a day for self-doubt.

Thinky thinky thinky.

Comments

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

I *hate* huge endings. I need something more epilogue-y to feel like the story is finished properly.

I love your thinky brain.

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

I could end the story after the initial spanking/daddy scene and just go back and fill in stuff. And then everything after that would just be silly fun cuddles and sex and okay, a fight and a breakup and a dramatic reunion, but clearly, that's non essential, right?

I think my brain is broken.

I got scolded for the IOS ending you know. You haven't read that, but let me tell you, I had people writing me and being all "That's it??" super indignant.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Whaaaaat? Um, rude, and what the hell anyways, what were they after? Explosions?

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

Well for a story that begins with a battle on board on a ship it ends with a little whimper. (And cuddles). But yeah, rude. I think they meant it in a we want moar! way. But...roo.

[dlasta.livejournal.com]

Fine line, dammit. Think before posting, come on.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

You have got to be kidding me? The ending of IOS was perfect. What fuck book were they reading? It answered all the questions that the characters had of each other throughout the whole frigging book. It dealt with the Rene's daddy issues, the emotional knife in his gut throughout the whole book. James comes to terms with the concepts of sin and salvation. And Rene comes to terms with his love for James and actually believes that James loves him. ALL IN ONE CHAPTER. It was the PERFECT ENDING.

PEOPLE ARE IDIOTS!

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

Aw. Aw.

Yeah I don't know. I am just amazed they made it all the way through (but then, I guess they made it all the way through, and then wanted more. Gluttons.)