Comments on: All I want is a happy ending…

By: neilfairbrother

neilfairbrother — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:40:16 +0000

Creative works are never finished, just abandoned.

By: Ann Godridge

Ann Godridge — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:01:37 +0000

Good point Neil…there's always hope then…

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Happily Ever After… | Birds on the Blog — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:10:42 +0000

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By: Jackie Walker

Jackie Walker — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:27:23 +0000

Yes even made up stories come from somewhere don’t they … not all writer’s can write the same sort of thing just as not all people live the same life, nor everyone enjoy the same fiction. So I guess that whatever’s important to the writer and their reader, hidden in the depths of their unconscious, must come out in their choice of fiction.

A friend was recently reading a really gory crime book as she came up on the train to a weekend workshop we were running. As it happened the last chapter in the book suddenly gave her closure on her husband’s death just as she pulled into Edinburgh!

The oldies are the goodies Morag!

By: Jackie Walker

Jackie Walker — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:27:00 +0000

The oldies are the goodies Morag!

By: Morag

Morag — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:16:10 +0000

The great thing about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is that by the time they realise, you’re a mile away – and they don’t have any shoes to chase you in.

BOOM-BOOM.

By: Morag

Morag — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:16:00 +0000

The great thing about walking a mile in someone else’s shoes is that by the time they realise, you’re a mile away – and they don’t have any shoes to chase you in.

BOOM-BOOM.

By: Ann Godridge

Ann Godridge — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:49:46 +0000

That’s interesting, Jackie. I suppose in a way most fiction is a kind of thought experiment, isn’t it? An exercise in empathy, in walking a while in someoen else’s shoes….

Hmmm….

By: Ann Godridge

Ann Godridge — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:49:00 +0000

That’s interesting, Jackie. I suppose in a way most fiction is a kind of thought experiment, isn’t it? An exercise in empathy, in walking a while in someoen else’s shoes….

Hmmm….

By: Ann Godridge

Ann Godridge — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:48:12 +0000

That’s a good point, Maggie – unremitting catasptrophe and you might as well be watching the news, some days …

And I hadn’t thought about those epilogues either, but you’re right, thee’s something unsatisfying them too…