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.

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Yeah, I've heard the First Evil thing, too. I've also heard that Nicky Brendon was given the option to be killed off (I think in S4), because the writers thought they'd run out of ideas for Xander's character, but Brendon turned them down, because a paycheck's a paycheck.

I never know if any of these rumors are true, though, lol. Never heard the "killing the cast in S5" one before this.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Based on the next three seasons, the writers never did find an idea for Xander. Which is amazing, since fanfic writers never had that problem.

[moscow-watcher.livejournal.com]

I never know if any of these rumors are true

NB confirmed that Joss offered him to kill off Xander in Backstage.com August 24, 2005 interview that was later reposted on NB's official site

http://nickbrendon.com/2005/

Brendon: ...Because after about season five on [Buffy], or the end of season four, I was that guy. [Buffy creator] Joss [Whedon] actually said Xander was done — that there was no more. I was just kind of relegated to the background. It was one of those things that, where I was at in my life, the money was more important than my pride or taking care of myself. [Leaving], especially as the show’s just starting to take off…

Re: killing off the whole cast in The Gift. It has never been confirmed officially, but old TV Tome trivia included that fact(-oid).