If you ever want to make a writer go all verklempt…

[lagilman]

http://www.lauraannegilman.net/if-you-ever-want-to-make-a-writer-go-all-verklempt/

Send them an email like this:

Your endings, why they always please me. You don't wrap everything in a neat package. You leave things for the reader to think about and work at, you let the reader be involved. Thats what I loved about the end of Vineart.....As a reader I hate packaged endings- nothing is ever that clean and perfect. Your endings are real.



I try to write the books I like to read - the ones that tickle my brain and set fire to my own imagination, that linger after the last page. So this just.... yeah. *hugs email to self*

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[claireeddy.livejournal.com]

That's the thing about Story--we never get to see the end. That's the point, isn't it?

[lagilman]

I've been told often enough that in order to "be successful" I have to make Story simpler, wrap everything up neatly and don't force readers to have to think.

To which I say: moo. also, fkcu that.