Professor of the Bleedin' Obvious

[erastes]

Writing A Book: Finishing Your Novel

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[semioticwarrior.livejournal.com]

Eh?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

For some reason it didn't show - it does now.

[starla-kid.livejournal.com]

I quite liked the first answer he gave actually, about not wanting to finish a novel because you want to continue writing it for some reason. I identify with that I think.

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[vashtan.livejournal.com]

I think he's spot on. :)

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

I understand that, cuz then you have to come out of your comfort zone you've created over God-knows-how-long and write another story!

[vashtan.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Perish the thought.

For me, too, writing endings is part of my performance anxiety. I know a book gets bought on the beginning, but the *next* book gets bought on *this* ending, and that makes me often very afraid to get it "right".

But that's already a discussion for meta_writer.

[alex-beecroft.livejournal.com]

LOL! It's not rocket science, is it? If every time you near the end of a novel it suddenly gets really difficult... you know it might be because you are subconsciously sabotaging yourself. Good lord, who'd have thought it?

Oh and 'the end must have a sense of closure' *g*. (I shouldn't laugh, because I've read enough stories where I got to the end and wondered if I'd missed a page because it just stopped in mid flow. But you would have hoped this kind of thing was obvious.)

[kittymay.livejournal.com]

He's probably right on many points, but he still seems like a tool.