: 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

@Samaraweera193

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Stories are not about what happens but about how the people (or things) get there.

Lets look at Star Wars. Episode 1-3. We know the ending. We know Anakin becomes Darth Vader. We know Yoda ends up on Degoba. We Know Anakin has two kids; one is sent to Alderaan, one is sent to Tatooine. We know Anakin is not the hero. We know how the story ends. But They still made 3 whole movies getting there.

"Memento" is a great movie of discovery that actually plays backwards. You know the ending at the start and you go though the story trying to find the "start".

Keep in mind that, with fiction, we care more about the story that is told then the ending. We know the ending. No one goes to an Iron Man movie thinking that Iron Man is going to die. We know he will win. We go and still wath for the journey.

On of my favorite series of book is wheel of time. The very first paragraph of the very first book tells you the ending. Yet there are still 13 books covering the trip on how they got there.

I would enjoy a book that has a bunch of people trying to cope with an obvious, yet unfavorable outcome. So long as those people are well developed and not just stand-ins. It's not the end that is important but the journey.

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