As I was writing my latest, I originally intended that the protagonist would become the daughter of his lover, who he looked on with more motherly affection than physical love. My editors convinced me otherwise, and I think they were correct; I liked the ending more. But I still have the "stuck as a girl" ending as a preference - sometimes.
What type of ending do all y'all like?
a) stuck as woman - with romantic ending
b) stuck as woman - no fairy-tale ending
c) stuck as girl
d) changed back, but learned a lesson
e) other
Subcategories:
1) fairy-tale ending
2) real-life, with disappointment
3) bitter ending?
Comments
A or C
Each one has it time and place depending on the story. Personally I prefer A or C.
The only issue I have ever had, is not about stuck or not stuck, its the notion that changing one's memory to an entire new one is the same as killing the person. Goes all the back to 1978 when I was 7 and saw Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty. The ending to this day still frighten me that he longer has any memory of who he was.
it totally depends
each one has its place.
Confused (contrary?) person that I am...
I have to say (E) other. But what I enjoy can go with several categories!
The endings I prefer are:
Happy!
Romantic!
Loving!
Accepting!
Thank you, My friend, for asking,
Ole
We are each exactly as God made us. God does not make mistakes!
Gender rights are the new civil rights!
Totally Agree
If you want a bad outcome, just watch the news or read a newspaper.
Depends
That is to broad a question! Is the change forced? Has the boy wanted to be a girl/felt he was born in the wrong body or does the change come about without his approval. Jennifer Sue recent Valentine story original ending drew criticism, because several readers, me included felt it was an attack on men. The boy wanted to accept girlhood for the wrong reasons. The new ending is much better.
If the protagonist knew from her first conscious thought that her boy's body is wrong, then the best ending is a happy girl being loved by her parents and family, even if they remain somewhat confused.
Sometimes the man/boy remaining such albeit a more enlightened figure at the end of the story is the proper ending.
Rami
RAMI
none of the above
my favorite ending is one that I didn't figure out before the middle of the story. I am not talking of sudden facts that side step the story line, but I am surprised about the way things turned out
thanx ed
ed
I prefer the ending that the
I prefer the ending that the story merits. See, I truly feel that each story has a life of it's own, and you rally have to be true to the story when writing it. Some stories require an unhappy ending. When it's really where the story needed to go, I appreciate and accept it.
Basically, Romeo and Juliet would not have been half so popular if they'd run away and lived together in obscurity. It is the tragedy that makes the love story worth it.
That being said, I am a comedy girl myself. I love the 'bad guys' getting their just deserts, the good girl getting the right man, and the feeling that every problem is resolved at the end.
Is it like real life? Now there is a loaded question if I ever heard one. Real life isn't much like real life, so how can our fiction be like real life?
There are strange and wonderful things that happen every day. Let your story decide which path it's on. Make the payout at the end worth the journey and that is the ending that is good.
Don't bogart that roach, Franz Kafka
I like the new ending I wrote for Kafka's Metamorphosis, in which Gregor Samsa hatches out of the husk of his dead cockroach body as a beautiful fairy princess who went on to join the WINX and have many cool magical adventures...
~hugs, Veronica
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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I think I like your ending
I think I like your ending better too. :)
Not that Metamorphosis's ending doesn't drive home the metaphor about disabled people, but I like something happy.
Hey...
...pass it over to me....
Love, Andrea Lena
e 1.5
And ending that is not biased towards femininity (or masculinity), in which any and all transformed individuals WANTED to change.
Not so sticky
Options A,B, and C imply that one can be stuck as a particular sex, which just isn't true as many members of the community here can attest. So it's a bid odd to consider that many of your options result in a character whose body is not the shape they would have chosen but they don't think they can do anything about it.