A Post With Two Topics

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For Writers

Do you guys often write stories where you already know how it's going to end before you start?
Not just generally knowing the plot - I'm talking the specific line that's going to be the last line in the fic.

I've just been thinking about my own writing, and I realised that, in fact, I often know the exact last line before I write the story. Mostly this means I'll end up figuring out what on earth the plot is just because I've got this last line sitting there, and I want to know how to get to it.

Does this happen to anyone else? Or just me?

(Bonus points if you can guess which of my stories started that way.)

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For Unaccomplished People

I just found out that the guy who sits across from me at work - who is two years younger than me - is about to buy a house.

I am feeling very disheartened and unaccomplished.

Please, regale me with your stories of how you didn't learn how to tie your shoes until you were ten, or never ever learned how to cook - so that I can laugh at you share your pain.

Comments

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Haha, nooo. The way it worked was that in their room they could hear what I was doing. Which actually is useful for babies cause it's easier to hear them if they cry or need something or whatever, and my room was too far away for them to hear me otherwise. But after I was a baby it got a little old.

I try to plot not to make sure there's a big humongous plot but so I know what the point of the story is and what I'm trying to say and where I'm going - a lot of the time I start a story and don't know what the set-up is leading towards, which can lead to burn out and writing myself into corners and laziness and giving up. :D

But going into detail on plots, not so much.