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Originally Posted by crich70
I don't know about others here at MR but when I pick up a fiction book I do so to be entertained and having too rapid fire a closing can feel like I'm a guest at the author's dinner table and am being quickly rushed out the door for some reason after the meal.
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I agree. I like good, clean endings rather than rushed ones. That's why I'll sometimes overwrite a scene just to give it a clean exit. Sure, I could have taken the shorter way out, but sometimes that feels too cheap and a few extra sentences actually add to it making it better. Now, when you start getting into extra paragraphs, then you're just flogging it for word count. But if it needs a little bit of extra content to bring it down for a much gentler, and more well rounded exit, then I see no problem with that.
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Originally Posted by gmw
The advice/suggestion is necessarily generic when not privy to the detail.  Only you can know what is critical to have in your wrap up, but my last paragraph above above, in response to crich, still stands as - I think - good advice; something to aim for. Your priority must be the conclusion of the series, any set up for a new series must either fit in well, or be left as a problem for the new series. |
Yeah, the setup isn't huge. It's just carefully positioning certain characters so that things can get moving quickly out of the gate in series two. But yeah, I plan to keep them germane to the original story while at the same time putting things in place for the next series without getting too out of line. Of course, I'm only halfway through my current series, so what I'm planning for that time period may end up changing dramatically depending on how the rest of this series unfolds. Even so I'm planning ahead on the assumption that it will end as I originally envisioned it. And if not, then I'll make the requisite adjustments needed to get it where it needs to be.