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? - Kaomea - 08-31-2018
Music always says it best I'll always remember the fun and silliness we shared. We had one heck of a ride. See you around, eventually
? - Julio Juliopolis - 08-31-2018
Beautiful video.
? - funnyguy - 11-01-2018
? - Kaomea - 11-03-2018
Kaomea wrote:
Music always says it best I'll always remember the fun and silliness we shared. We had one heck of a ride. See you around, eventually
[“Great is the art of beginning,” Longfellow said, “but greater the art of ending.”
It’s true. Beginnings, like first kisses, need only seduce us with their potential, clearly establish the theme, cast, and tenor of the affair to come, whereas the ending must realize the story’s potential, deliver on the checks the beginning has signed, and do so in such a memorable way that the reader is left wanting more. For we may forget how a relationship began—we were drunk, it was wartime, it began slowly—but rarely do we forget how it ended—with a slap, a kiss tasting of tears, a farewell wave from the back of a camel. It’s the end of the story we’re focused on when we recount these tales of betrayal, lost love, infidelity, isn’t it?
The ending bears all the weight of the story, its task nothing less than imbuing the story with meaning and making it unforgettable. The ending must fulfill the reader’s expectations by answering the questions that have been raised in the reader’s mind (or at least some of them), and it has to make sense, but at the same time, it should be unexpected. I don’t mean I want a surprise—I mean, even if I know how the story will end, I want to be surprised by the way I get there. The writer has done his job, novelist David Leavitt says, when the reader’s reaction to the ending is “Oh my God,” followed by “Of course.”
Obviously, endings are hard. Every writer struggles with them. Ernest Hemingway revised the last page of A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times. When asked in an interview what the problem was that had him in such a swivet, he answered, “Getting the words right.”
Oh, is that all?
If beginnings are characterized by a lot of throat clearing and exposition, and the middle is where the writer hits his stride, endings—the knowledge that the end is near, The C on my A-B-C narrative arc looms!—strikes panic in writers’ hearts. You have to understand your story to end your story. Endings are harder than beginnings because they must grow organically out of the rest. They must, as Anton Chekhov says, “artfully concentrate for the reader an impression of the entire work.”
Of course, certain genres require specific closures. Mysteries, crime novels, ghost stories, bodice rippers, all by their very nature promise a neat resolution. Once the reader knows “who done it” and how; what, pray tell, ate those Eagle Scouts; and who will end up in whose arms, there is no reason for the author to stick around.]
Not my words (source: https://tinhouse.com/endings-parting-is ... et-sorrow/ ) but it offers a fine summary of things.
When a good tale ends, the reader closes the book and contemplates the adventure. Then they spend many days, weeks, months, perhaps even years recalling it. When Harry Potter found me, I spent the rest of my life basking in it's lessons. I have never read a better tale than hers
Cheers to every master storyteller who ever lived! A league of their own!
And also, yes, when the end of a suspenseful story greets you, it is flattering when an audience demands more.
Still. Some tales do end and the storyteller moves on to other adventures. See, it is important to remember that an author doesn't always write for others, it is sometimes a journey inward.
Do not pester the master storyteller. They are busy dreaming
? - Guest - 08-21-2019