I’ve stumbled across a problem in a story I’m writing: I’ve come to the end.
No, I don’t mean I’ve finished it. And I didn’t get to the same end of the piece which I’d originally plotted for it. I thought I had quite a while to go–my outline has twenty major points on it, and I was at sixteen–when suddenly I realise that this story is about to end.
The characters, the environment, the story itself, demanded that it be over.
So I’ve got a problem. I think I’m okay with ending things here, but that means that I’m going to have to go back and make sure everything is in place for this ending, an ending other than that which I’d previously conceived. It’ll all wash out I think. But I don’t know for sure. I may still want to go on and write out the rest of what I intended to write originally.
It is an interesting problem.
