The most recent episode gave what could be an ending to the story. If that's what you the readers want, it can stop there. If it does I've enjoyed the ride, at times it has stretched me.
If however, you want it to continue, let me know. Equally, if you think it's run its course feel free to say. I'm 'Easy' either way.
Thanks for the support and your comments,
hugs,
Angharad (& Bonzi).
Comments
Are you nuts?
Angharad, it's you they should be hauling off to the rubber room farm if you think you're getting off that lightly.
Continue
More
Don't stop
Bravo
Encore
Keep going
Full steam ahead
and um, any others I may have failed to think of.
If you're not too busy that is.
Thanks
IF This Was A Short Story
...then perhaps this (ch. 146) would be an ideal avant-garde/noirish ending to one. But, it isn't. It's quite the full-length novel, isn't it? As such, you need a bit more of a wrap-up. There are too many loose, or loose-ish ends flapping about. In the tradition of melodrama (with which, I'm afraid to say, EAFOAB also dabbles), the heroine at least needs to fly into the arms of her true love. Yes, you could jam all the loose ends into a single additional epilogue chapter if you want rid of this story, but that feels a little bit like cheating.
I would say that the story has completed the climactic, and scariest plunge of its roller-coaster of a story arc, and is heading into the relatively gentle home stretch, but that doesn't mean there aren't one or two little bumps left. Nothing earth-shattering, just something to elicit a giggle or two, and let the audience down gently. Think of it as a bit of cuddling, or for the nicotinishly-inclined, a cigarette, after sex.
My guess is that you need between 3 and 7 more episodes to wrap this up and leave your grateful readers in thorough love with you and your creation. Pandering? Perhaps a bit, but to some extent the form demands it.
Ideas
If you need some ideas for the finishing chapters, I'd suggest at least running the characters you've created across the stage once more:
The Royals: Simon, Sis, their father, and especially the lascivious stepmom.
The woman vicar.
The therapist.
The shopkeeper.
The father.
The ward sister.
The two trolls in her building.
The policewoman.
Her new students.
The professor needs one more bow.
And, of course, Spike.
You only did that....
.... to show your picture of the dormouse! Awwwwwwwwwwwwww isn't she cute. Say hello to Spike, Bonzi. Bonzi, stop licking your lips, Bonzi behave yoursel.... Bonzi! BONZI NO!
I did try.
hugs,
Angharad.
Angharad
Theatre
Have I ever mentioned that my uni degree was in Theatre Arts? (Which, of course, explains how I ended up wasting a great deal of my productive years in one or another windowless cells playing a corporate IT guru. No, wait... It doesn't, does it? Well, a girl has to eat, you know.)
Anyway, besides being bent in various ways, I suppose theatrically is still one of them. So, what would a plea for a big Nelson Eddy / Jeanette MacDonald musical ending for your little melodrama be, without a bit of theatre? So, yes. It's all about the dormouse, clearly.
And, as far as eating the little critters goes, the lead-addled Romans, bless their tiny little hearts, used to eat them as a delicacy for dessert, dipped in honey and rolled in poppyseeds, according to academically uncitable sources on the 'net.
Wrong dormouse Pippa,
That's a Common or Hazel Dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, the one the Romans ate, is the Edible Dormouse Glis glis. See a previous comment re recipes! They only occur in the Tring area of the Chilterns, where they were introduced in 1902.
Hugs,
Angharad.
PS please keep the piccies coming, they're better than the storyline.
Angharad
You are not done yet hon.
You still have a bunch of loose ends to tie off. So until you get that done I don't think anyone is going to let you off the hook.
Oh and if you or your muse create any new loose ends like I'm sure will happen, you'll have to tie those off as well.
So there is the keyboard, now get writing.
Thanks for a wonderful tale, that keeps me coming back to this site multiple times a day to see if the next chapter has been posted yet.
Hugs,
Arwen's Tears
Bloody right!
I couldn't have put it better myself.
In fact I didn't.
The Concensus Is In...
...And it would appear, dear Auntie, that you still have some 'falling off the bike' to do. My guess is the natives won't be truly happy until we get the wedding. :)
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur
Never let it be said that I don't enjoy the occasional delusion of grandeur
Ok I admit it ...
... you ARE clever and don't need to fish for compliments. You even posted episode 146 early on the very night I had to go to bed early because I had to get up at the unearthly hour of 7.30 to go to an appointment. How clever is that?
Too many loose ends - continue. Please
Seriously for once - I think your experiment in scary writing is astonishingly good. I can only imagine what an effort it's been and I couldn't blame you for deciding to call a halt to this punishing daily schedule. I just hope that you don't. I also think it's had a very good effect on your writing. I think it's improved as you've progressed. It's been (is?) worthwhile on so many fronts.
may I close with an uncharacteristic ((((((((((((((hug)))))))))?
Geoff
Thanks for the compliment Geoff,
and the hug, I won't tell a soul!
I suppose there'll be letters in the Guardian if I don't carry on for a bit. (Although I have failed on 7 or 8 attempts to get one in about cycling).I don't know if my writing has improved, or if it's just the improvisation that's better, or is it as the character's develop you can play more with them? I'm not an analytical sort, so I'm not too bothered.
So as long as the storyline keeps flowing, I'll keep scribbling it down here, provided you lot keep reading it of course.
Angharad
Angharad
Ah, I've bettered you in at least one respect then ...
... as I did once get a letter published in the holy of holies about cycling. Or at least about the way the local rozzers didn't nick someone for knocking me off, wrecking my beautiful Mercian and putting me in hospital.
And just to reassure you - my real name isn't Keith Flett lol
Geoff
(for non-Guardian readers Keith Flett is a prolifically published letter writer)
Auntie, Please Keep this Story Going
as it is so wonderful. It's become a staple part of most reader's day at BigCloset and would sorely be missed if it left. Please don't think on giving it up .. at least not yet.
BigCloset TopShelf
More, please?
This has been a fun story, and there are too many loose ends for me to want to see it stop.
Please, do continue.
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
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"Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite."
Robert A. Heinlein
Nicole (a.k.a. Itinerant)
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Veni, Vidi, Velcro:
I came, I saw, I stuck around.
easy as
you cant stop there, theres too many unfinished things