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

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1. Heh, thanks. It's hardest when it's a happy ending, because it always seems too sappy or corny - which is another reason I dislike happy endings, lol.

2. To this day, I don't know how it happened. I rode into the fence, and when I opened my eyes, I was under the fence, with the little metal wire thingies stuck in my arm. I had to get a tetanus shot.

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Omigod, that's awful. *shivers*

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And the worst part was that my kindergarten crush was watching...

(The same fellow, in fact, who recently assisted my mother with not setting our house on fire. Poor guy has witnessed many of my family's most embarrassing moments.)