It's a terrible blood bath in my novel right now as I am trying to write the conclusion of it.
It feels as if all that I had built is slowly being flushed down to the toilet with a blood bath...
How are your novels ending on your side?
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2005 - Overthrowing Konoha (Fanfiction)
2006 - The Fifth Light (Original)
2007 - Journal of Lumière (Original)
2008 - Rewritting of The Fifth Light
67,300 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 10 37
my novel is well not ending yet. i have two more major events but i need another one for a good ending so that it all fits together just right.
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48,610 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 10 40
On my part?
Meandering around to "You know, you forgot to make a villain. So your big, climatic scene--and therefore villain--is actually this pragmatic ruler guy that you actually liked and wanted the reader to like. Oh, well. That's what you get for completely lacking a plot.
"P.S. You're running out of things to write... Can you really write 50k words of nada?"
57,987 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 11 28
I used to just write and let the story tell itself, but these days i tend to put the bones for the story down so I know where it starts and stops and what happens along the way, then all i have to so is put the meat on the bones when I'm writing, so the ending's already there I just have to reach it...
50,114 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 11 39
I try to have an idea of what the ending will be . . .
The hero returns to his home after the long journey.
The bad guys are defeated.
A main character dies and everyone feels sad.
The youth comes of age.
There is a wedding or the characters announce they're engaged.
One obstacle is overcome but there's an even greater challenge waiting in the sequel.
Most of my endings have at least one of the above. Sometimes three or four.
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57,987 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 12 16
The hero returns to his home after the long journey.
The bad guys are defeated.
A main character dies and everyone feels sad.
The youth comes of age.
There is a wedding or the characters announce they're engaged.
One obstacle is overcome but there's an even greater challenge waiting in the sequel.
Most of my endings have at least one of the above. Sometimes three or four.
Lord of the Rings does almost all of them, pretty much in that order too ;)
50,179 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 13 05
My ending is actually going to be the start of a bloody civil war, but you don't really get to see that bit *cheeky*. It decided to become even more of a political thing than I originally intended it to be, but I have to admit that I do love the bit I wrote tonight, it involved a pub, conspiracy stuff and old men reminiscing about their childhoods while the typically busty and gorgeous barmaid enchants the young man present XPP.
51,448 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 13 27
My conclusion is only half way through the MMC and FMC's adventure, so It's going to have to be Part 1 and Part 2 I usually write tight but I did a lot better this time and have too much for one book. I have 2 non-fiction book proposals to write in December so Part 2 will have to wait until January..
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Won Southern Cross Novel Challenge 2008 The Amber Pearl
Won KiwiWriters "Don't Stop! Keep Going" 2008
Won JulNoWriMo 2008
50,871 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 13 47
The ending of part 1 will be a sword duel, which will culminate with the success of the "hero", and his triumphant "victory": a married life, big estate, etc.
52,228 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 14 30
I'm not even close. As I reached 50k, I was just finishing the second part to my three part story.
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62,000 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 15 52
I finished it today, but I had my story arc written out for quite a while, even more than usual for me. I knew when the ending was going to be, and kind of how I wanted to do it. For some reason it's still hard...I want to end on the right note.
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50,600 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 17 08
My characters will defeat the villain, only to find out he wasn't the villain and the real villain is a former friend, people get stabbed and die, then the survivors make their weary way back to their town only to find all the inhabitants have been slaughtered. :D
Okay, so they get a semi-happy, semi-open-ended epilogue afterwards.54,577 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 19 48
My MC and the evil villain duel, the evil villain says nasty stuff to MC, MC kills him. He sorta gets a girl, only not in a romantic way (because oddly enough there is NO romance at all in this book) and then everything turns out perfect.
And this will all happen just as soon as I figure out where my MC is going to get a sword to fight this duel. Once I get him a sword I'm sure it'll be a perfectly awesome ending.
75,246 / 50,000
Nov 28, 2008 - 23 27
My story ends with a phrase that recalls the first one. It ends with a similar situation: the main character walking, alone.
50,017 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2008 - 02 32
Everything in mine is wrapping up exactly how I wanted it to... yay!
My main characters just recovered a stolen book that was written by super awesome queen in book 1... and now they are going to get married, exchange blood as part of their normal wedding ritual, and thus she will "share the blood" of said awesome queen, and now that she knows exactly why they were forced to live in the trees (thanks to the book), she will take advantage of that to become the "savior" her weird little always wished the queen had become instead of marrying that really cool king guy...
I swear, it's way cooler than it sounds. All the typing has fried my brain and I can't make coherent phrases anymore unless they're actually in my novel... ugh
78,242 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2008 - 08 20
This novel is ending with an army staring down the mercs that are there to stop them. One MMC leads the army. My other MMC and my FMC are part of one of the mercenary companies that are there to stop them. That's where book two is SUPPOSED to pick up. LOL
----------Creativity is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. ~Thomas Edison
50,069 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2008 - 11 15
Mine is ending in a blood bath too, but mine was planned at least. I think for the sake of Nano I'm going to have to end it on a very grim cliffhanger though, with three surviving good guys who have pretty much lost everything to an evil emperor. I'm sure I'll return to the story before long though, extend it a fairly large amount.
----------NaNoWriMo 2008: To What End - Winner
50,152 / 50,000
Nov 29, 2008 - 12 05
My novel isn't ending...... My characters took things into their own hands a week or two back, and they're still going..... I'm getting a little afraid that they're not going to let me end at all, and just keep going and going and going..... I'm probably going to have to end up killing one of my MCs.... *cries*
124,558 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 07 02
My novel ended sorta kinda the way it was supposed to.
The story is about the characters around the hero, instead of herself, which made the last confrontation different to write because they were only indirectly involved. However, since they didn't know what she was thinking, the fact that she ran away after being made queen. (She made her niece her heir and set everyone else up in advisory positions, which they all assumed meant she was committing herself to the queen position.) They were not so much surprised as they were annoyed no one had thought to stop her.
Now I'm just going to have to go back and cut half of it out...
(They talk too much)
50,693 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 10 01
My novel is wrapping up with a plot twist I never considered until my characters pulled it off. The demon who spent most of my novel trying to train my MC in the ways of corruption and vice actually became my MC's new guardian angel, taking his place back in the Choir Eternal after a bit of personal redemption. I really wasn't heading in that direction, but there you have it.
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-- Douglas Adams
50,006 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 10 56
I'm somewhat close to the end of the novel, my MC has met up with a magic user and they are really close to journey's end (the secret female magic users group). I haven't had these scenes planned out at all for this section and have been working off my general idea of what happens when. Once I hit 50k I think I'll make some scene notes before finishing the draft.
Yes, and I'm totally doing the "get over one obstacle while other challenges await in later book(s) part" previously mentioned in the thread. I'm not sure if it'll be one or two books after this, but that might fall into place more once I flesh out the world more and edit the time line in this novel. Novel 1: Change the main character, Novel 2 (and possibly 3): Main character changes the world. :P
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50,126 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 12 11
Happy ending all around. Which is good, because now my charries are nice to me!
----------"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou
53,129 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 15 53
MC and some newfound companions destroy the main baddie, the city the main secondary character is in gets ransacked (she's not happy about it, even though it's not even on her home side) and the MC starts the negotiations between her side and the other side that will at some future point (hopefully) end the war between them.
----------Percussus resurgio
NaNoWriMo History: 2008 - Keldostri Acaleros (Won - 53129 words)
61,145 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 16 46
Mine ended with the MC gaining her romantic interest... but she ended up playing prison guard to her grandfather and mother (who were the baddies). That just bites... of course the alternative would have been to kill off grandpa and mom...
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50,310 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 18 35
Mine ends with my MC possibly joining the bad guys (cliffhanger) and her future love interest going off to find where she's ran off to. It was originally going to end with her escaping their clutches, but she apparently isn't as independent as she likes to think. And her love interest just needed to go.
Sigh, I'm just glad I'm done. -faints-
----------"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
--- J.R.R. Tolkien
50,044 / 50,000
Nov 30, 2008 - 20 26
Mine ends with my character's life figuratively ending, and with him leaving to prepare to become an angel.
"So, we departed. I left a few letters, telling them that I'd gone travelling, as my new teacher instructed me. No one ever went looking for me, but once a few years later. My father was sick, and dying. I didn't go to see him.
Nor to go to his funeral.
Some wounds are just too deep."
The last line is pretty much something that he'd been repeating over and over again in other forms, after he'd start to go off on a bitter rant about someone.
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67,214 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 04 31
I had the hadest time coming up with an ending, but I think it was this thread I read someone's advice to tie the ending back to the title. So I wrote a scene where the title comes up as sort of a warning to the main character earlier in the book. Near the end there's a fight with his new nemesis and he gets away with a pretty bad wound When he wakes up he's mostly healed and he and his family are driving cross country to find a safe place. As they do, he looks out the window and sees an eclipse, and thus the next set of events for the third book are in place.
It happened so slowly he didn’t realize what it was at first. Something started to blot out the sun. Squinting, he braced himself and slowly moved so he could see it better. The sun started getting darker and darker, speeding up by the minute. Fifteen minutes later, the sun was totally eclipsed.
Sounds kind of lame right now, but it pertains to some really bad events about to take place in the third book. Hopefully next year the editing will make it sound better, lol.
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55,354 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 07 45
Mine ends now with a twist that makes the reader seriously think.
I was crying when I wrote the last scene...
D:
----------2005 - Overthrowing Konoha (Fanfiction)
2006 - The Fifth Light (Original)
2007 - Journal of Lumière (Original)
2008 - Rewritting of The Fifth Light
89,166 / 50,000
Dec 1, 2008 - 12 19
Mine felt like a Lord of the Rings ending, one that just keeps going. I'll have to re-write it a bit, but all in all it ended somewhat like I planned.
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