: Re: Worth writing, if end is obvious I am currently sketching a novel about people at the end of time, some months or years before the Big Crunch: There is a space station full of people who

@Frith254

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You know the Titanic sank, right? And in the Bible the MC dies, right?

If a are new writer seeking to be published commercially I seriously doubt your plot will prove popular. Commercial fiction basically amount so 'comfort reading'. "Everybody dies" is unlikely to get you published.

However, I disagree with Mark Baker's assertion: "A novel is an experience, not a puzzle. It's appeal depends on how compelling an experience you create, not on whether we know how it ends." - 'Whodunnits" and "Thrillers" are wholly, or in part, puzzles.

If you have the skills: misdirection and red herrings can be deployed to shake the reader's resolve when initially believing they know the outcome.

There are also times when the directed outcome is not true outcome.

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