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Aaaaaa Ending a fic
Aug. 16th, 2022 11:40 amhoo boy I am a slut for the little "complete" symbol on AO3 when I get to the end of a long multichapter, but ngl I feel some pressure when I get to the final chapter(s).
I'm gonna be posting my final chapter for a fic on Thursday, and ack. I have a draft written for it, read/edited once (but probably will again), but it doesn't quite feel like a huge bang to end on... I think for this work in particular, I had a very strong scene I really wanted to write that I considered the actual emotional climax that was written like, two or three chapters ago. Now the past few chapters have sort of been some aftermath stuff and working through some plotty things, and this final chapter I'm trying to resolve things but there's not really a "bang" to the ending if that makes sense.
I worry that it won't be fully satisfactory, but also I would rather just let it end than attempt to drag it on because I don't know what I'm doing. I also know there COULD be more and deeper to explore, but it's all stuff that I'm just not interested in writing. I got through my big emotional chapter, now I just wanna give some closure.
To be honest I almost always feel this way about endings... They're so hard, especially for long works where so much has built up over time, but I'm the kind of person who eventually loses interest and wants to end things properly, so forcing myself through the brutal wringer of "ending" things it is.
I'm gonna be posting my final chapter for a fic on Thursday, and ack. I have a draft written for it, read/edited once (but probably will again), but it doesn't quite feel like a huge bang to end on... I think for this work in particular, I had a very strong scene I really wanted to write that I considered the actual emotional climax that was written like, two or three chapters ago. Now the past few chapters have sort of been some aftermath stuff and working through some plotty things, and this final chapter I'm trying to resolve things but there's not really a "bang" to the ending if that makes sense.
I worry that it won't be fully satisfactory, but also I would rather just let it end than attempt to drag it on because I don't know what I'm doing. I also know there COULD be more and deeper to explore, but it's all stuff that I'm just not interested in writing. I got through my big emotional chapter, now I just wanna give some closure.
To be honest I almost always feel this way about endings... They're so hard, especially for long works where so much has built up over time, but I'm the kind of person who eventually loses interest and wants to end things properly, so forcing myself through the brutal wringer of "ending" things it is.
