Them Pesky Books

[thebitterguy]

Hmmm. There's a thread over on RPG.net called "... but he's not very good at endings."

This post was made in the course of the discussion:

This is so completely wrong that I don't even know where to begin. Done telling the story = the story is completed and while there may be lots of secondary things going on that you could keep investigating, they are not the story you were telling.

I think that's actually wrong. If there's all these secondary things that are significant enough and presented in such a way that people are left wanting them explored, not exploring them is kind of not finishing the book. That's sort of what editors are supposed to do, right?

I mean, it's always possible for there to be stuff left for further investigation, especially if it's a franchise, but overall the main and sub plots should be wrapped up well enough that there's satisfaction on the reader's part, right?

I guess it's just the concept of "lots of secondary things" sounds like a fairly cluttered and sloppy story.

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You seen No Country For Old Men?

[thebitterguy]

Not yet.