: 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

I would like to second the notion of what Mark says. Most stories, you know the ending. These endings are obvious because they are the cookie cutter stereotype plots that is and comes EXPECTED of said genres. The trick isn't that you fooled them with the ending. No one will want to read it again because the trick is now known and the whole mystery element that you build the book around loses it's appeal for reread value. We read these epic hero stories like Lord of the Rings over and over again. We read books that are pretty much an exact copy with different character names and hail it "refreshing". Adding your own spice and twists certainly ADDS to the story, but it shouldn't be the FOCUS of the story.

We read books because we want to get lost in a different world, different life, a fantasy, live through past history. Story telling is a lot like telling a joke. How many times has someone told you and a group of people a joke that you all thought was hilarious but when you try to bring up that same joke down the road to the same group of people, no one laughs? It's about the delivery and not necessarily about the content.

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