yung-bicth:

writingfeedsthedarkestones:

welldonebeca:

kurapikawithagun:

So are you

amouagee:

But happy endings are literally SOOO boring

kurapikawithagun:

I’m compelled by stories where the characters suffer a lot, but only if there’s catharsis in the end. If they just die without ever getting to recover I’m OUT because what’s the fucking purpose then? Voyeurism? Bye

Life already sucks, I need my happy endings to survive.

It doesn’t have to be a happy ending. It just has to be the right ending.

Your leads don’t have to have a huge wedding at they end, but maybe they can sit at their friend’s funeral together, and have a shoulder to cry on.

The war doesn’t have to end, but the characters can have a moment of peace together, where they can share a drink, and mourn the people they’ve lost, and prepare for what’s to come.

The friends don’t have to come back from the dead, but maybe the living can come to accept the losses, and take the next steps into their lives.

Healing doesn’t always have to mean happy. It just means moving forward. I’d rather see someone take a deep breath, and step into a therapist’s office, than ignore what happened and party.

Happy endings can be right, but the characters have to deal with what got them there.

straight up aristotle wrote a guide on writing tragedy and one of the central points was the idea of catharsis. not a necessarily a happy ending, but a release. if you write something filled with tension and there is no release from that tension, you have not written a story because you have not written an ending. you can write a series of events that has a final event, but the emotional arc makes it a story. if the situation, including the emotional and mental situations, for your characters has not changed in a meaningful way from the beginning to the end of your story, go back and examine why the story needs to be told.