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

[sinjah.livejournal.com]

Um, everyone's already said pretty much everything I wanted to say, so. I'm just gonna repeat that I do love your endings as well, and I don't find them anticlimatic. All you really need in an ending, as pir8fancier said, is catharsis, your characters resolving the issues you have put out there. It doesn't have to happen with a bang.

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

I think I was just angsting over the fact that, yet again, I have gone on forever and day and though the end is in sight, it still irks me.

Irks. I am irked I tell you.