Eek! Endings!

Nov 27, 2007 14:30

I just wrote the ending of A Time to TrustI am very unnerved ( Read more... )

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danistormborn December 6 2007, 16:19:08 UTC
I've read through some of the other reviews in Summoning, and the comments all seem very insightful. I especially appreciate your story (and your writing in general) because it awakens all my lit crit training. :) ...Particularly the half-semester I spent studying eco-feminist criticism, because it adds that extra layer to all the nature imagery and themes you have playing out. I'm such a dork.

And YES, the shower is the exact time where all those words, scenes, everything occur to me, too. Usually, that's when I write my favorite plays for my theatre company. It's funny that the time when you are perhaps least able to write something down is when the ideas occur.

My guess about the epilogue is the latter: stubbornness. I can see how she had worked years and years and years to get to the ending she had always dreamed and had already written. I imagine it was like a big sigh of relief to have finally caught up with herself. But... that's the catch. By the time she got there, she and the story had grown. Really, the first book in the series has a great plot but the book isn't not nearly as complex as the others - which makes technical sense, because the books mature along with Harry and probably the children readers - and the epilogue reminds me more of the style of the first book (and possibly even younger than that).

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bambu345 December 7 2007, 16:23:48 UTC
I've taken a couple of courses in matristic societies and the patriarchies which have sublimated them. I do think the pendulum will swing back in their direction after a time, and I also think that what I've learned has been quite influential in several of my stories. They're practice for my original trilogy (in the early planning stages.)

I love, love, love the shower for brainstorming. It's private, it's soothing and I think it's secure so that more of our subconscious brain is freed up to wander at will.

I quite agree with you about Rowling's epilogue. She grew as a writer, and her characters developed, but the epilogue matched her earliest efforts which was jarring when juxtaposed with her seventh book.

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