Writing As an author, what type of ending maker are you based on?

KidBuu699 said:

Not every cultivation story needs to end with the mc becoming a true immortal.

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It kinda does or it ruins the power fantasy of the entire xianxia genre. Find me one xianxia that DOESN'T end with the MC achieving Immortality and I'll show you a unicorn. Fighting for Immortality is quite literally the entire purpose of the Xianxia genre. It's always the end game. Where the strongest realms and people lay. To remove that end goal would be to deny the purpose of the entire genre as a whole. The ONLY way to remove the MC achieving Immortality is to imply the MCs enemy/rival did, which would be an awful ending. That or no one did, which is impossible because all Xianxia at some point mention past people who achieved True Immortality to give examples of the end-goal for the MC. To have no one achieve it in the end is the antithesis of the entire genre.

The only genres of the cultivation side of things that could avoid any True Immortal ending is Wuxia and Xuanhuan....mostly because many Wuxia dont even have a hard-coded cultivation system and Xuanhuan almost always involve more western themes than either Xianxia or Wuxia

CharlesEBrown said:

To quote the late Robert Jordan:



There are beginnings, and endings, but they are not absolute. Some are obvious, planned, some are not what we expected, and some are open ended.
And some are so far off as to be non-existent...

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By far my most favorite series. Read the whole thing 4 times and contemplating a 5th read.

LazyScript said:

I like everything but the open ending. As a reader, I don't prefer open endings UNLESS there's an obvious sequel.

This might just be preferential, but closing out a series on an open ending just seems lazy to me, like the author didn't really have a plan or just didn't know what to do with the story. Again, just my opinion from a reader's perspective.

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I DESPISE open-endings. Anytime I find a work I like and it concludes on a open-ending, I make it a point to NEVER read anything else by them ever again. I also hate endings that are overly nonsensical with the symbolic crap. I hated Evangelion's endings. The original ending was so bad that they had to redo it with another installation to the series ..and I still didn't like the new one any better. Why can't people stop pretending they are deep and philosophical and just create a fucking ending that I don't need to spend an hour considering the details and undertones of. I refuse to watch/read any of the other installments to the series or anything else that Hideaki Anno makes.

The only open-ending I've ever been able to tolerate is Cowboy Bebop. It doesn't hurt that I like everything else by Shinichiro Watanabe as well.

A story can be deep and complicated, but to me, endings shouldn't be. They should wrap everything up with a nice little bow in the end, whether it be mindless silly fun or devastating tragedy as well as EVERYTHING in between these two extremes.

Im going with number 4, to be honest all my stories end in bad endings, or like I kill off all the character, honestly you shoulda but a jjk ending ? cause I feel like that’s how I always end my stories. However, i don’t have a general idea for my ending. But I’ve stuck a few pieces together and it’s decent, but I feel like it’ll throw my readers off and annoyed ???, what can I say ??
My story: The Duke’s Pirate.

Since I'm writing a contemporary fantasy romance, I'm gonna have to default to an ending with HEA (happily ever after) lest the audience for it would chop my head off, lol.

Endings never work out for me when planned. I'd think how they'll end, but that never is how they conclude. I think it is because once I am writing the story, even when I know how the scenes play out, those characters are suddenly in my head and I'd realize they'd respond and react in ways that I hadn't initially planned, and now I'm writing a different story away from how I outlined it.

I have an idea in mind for an ending, but it oftentimes changes as I write. Sometimes the original ending works, other times I let the story tell me how it wants to end.

I create an ending and then pants myself out of it somehow. Happened on the only stories I actually completed. Ended differently than what I originally had in mind.

The goat series 'Ending maker' mentioned?

I would probably use the first option in the, but I need to see what my characters want to do first :)