A Post With Two Topics

[deird_lj]

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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

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, that's how I write all the time. If not a specific line, then at least a specific scene for the end. Usually I get an idea for the beginning, an idea for the end, and most of my writing process is just wrangling the characters and situations into some path that takes them from one point to the other. Sometimes, a new ending will pop up in my head, or just a new line, and no matter what, I have to change the whole story around to try to fit it in. *shrugs* I'm a slave to the ending line.


Uh, if it makes you feel better, lately I've been trying to make fudge from my grandmother's recipe and failing spectacularly. I now feel bad for all the times I made fun of my mother growing up when it took her three times to get a really good batch.

[deird1]

Whee! Someone writes the way I do!

I have to change the whole story around to try to fit it in.

Definitely. Having a line that's so perfect and completely not what you were planning on... it's fun, but really complicated.


Uh, if it makes you feel better, lately I've been trying to make fudge from my grandmother's recipe and failing spectacularly.

Heh. The other day I made caramel slice and had to chuck out all the caramel because it set wrong. My mum makes it looks so easy...