[Mitasova]

When browsing various archives and seeing fics with summaries like: "X is madly in love with Y. But on the day of their wedding the dark force arises that threaten to separate them forever. Can they overcame it?", I'm desperatly longing to find just one single story where the answer to the quiestion asked in the summary is "No".

That's all.
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Tanya

[SpaceWeavil]

[Mitasova]

Sad endings are necessary. Too bad I don't read Legolas stories, but kudos to you none the less.

Are you going to put a rhetorical quiestion in the summary?
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Tanya

[SpaceWeavil]

[Haleth]

I like ambiguous endings. They seem far closer to reality than having everything tied up in a nice, neat package.

I think writing a story with a cliched plot but with an ambiguous and/or unhappy ending would make a great challenge.

[NancyBrooke]

[Mitasova]

Will you? By all portents, if such a thing exists, it has to be a good story. Or, at least, funny.
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Tanya

[DarkElfChilde]

My Legolas story isn't a romance once, but i thought of it...didn't work out so...Legolas doesn't have anyone to fall in love with and yadda yadda...oh and in the end of the story...good guys aren't gonna win this time. I'm tired of those stories in the matter of fact, and I thought that the bad side should win this time, there's my little spoiler of what will happen...shhhh

[figment]

Gosh, sad endings are so hard to write! And I suppose that's why there are so few of them. Personally, whenever I write, I like a story to end up the way I'd want it to if I were actually in the story... so yeah.

Ambiguous endings can be cool though, if done correctly. In some situations though, ambiguity can be annoying... like if it's a reslly really super long story that you've been reading forever, and you finally get to the end, and... ambiguous.

Whatever floats your boat, I guess. And kudos to all of you who can write a sad ending and not feel depressed afterwards!

[SilverMoonLady]

The fact is that life is rarely neat, and while one can hope to look back and see more good than bad, it's way too often mixed together to so easily chalk up.
There are as many reasons to read as there are to write, and so we find complete escapist and light hearted stuff; intense and/or tragic tales with a happy ending; and tragedy or grief with little light or hope. We read and write what we need to say and hear, and it isn't always that love and good triumphs in the end, for while that might give one hope, sometimes it is commiseration or catharsis that we need.
We love these characters, we want them to be blessed in every way we wish to be, but how real does it feel when absolutely everything goes well? How often does that really happen? And how boring to stand secure when beginning a tale of contrived circumstances when the ending is so very clear from the start?

Bring on the angst, the drama and the ambiguous!

Though I must say, that at the risk of being entirely cheezy: "My barn having burned down, I can finally see the moon."