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Originally Posted by KenJackson
Good point. 
I think it was Rendevous with Rama that Arthur C. Clarke ended with something like (from memory), "But the Ramans do everything in threes!" I read that he had no intention of writing the next two novels at the time he finished that one but he just wanted to leave something dangling. |
Thanks for affirming that. I was becoming afraid that I had lost touch with reality in terms of writing.
If you read the stuff I've published, it tends to end on an uncertain note. Sometimes that backfires, but I think that if a story is very discrete, it has less realism. Life isn't a sequence of discrete events. They blend together, and if you look at any specific time interval, if the person isn't dead at the end, you haven't seen the end of the story (so to speak).