ending? help please

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Sat, 2011-12-31 04:57

ending? help please

Ok so I'm about 11 chapters into my wip and I don't know what the ending is going to be. I mean I have a rough idea/ideas but nothing set in stone. So I thought maybe I could tell you my ideas and maybe you can point me in the right direction. Its really bothering me that I don't know the ending.

Long story very short my book is about this girl from another world who has to get rid of this evil force and to kill him she must sacrifice herself OR after she kills him she "vanishes" bc her purpose was fulfilled. This is also partly a love story.
So here are my ending ideas

Ending 1. Possession: the evil force takes over her body in the final battle and in order to kill him she must kill herself. Don't know what would happen after that though.
Ending 2. Astral projection (out of body experience): after she kills the evil one her body dies but her spirit lives on (not really a ghost) and again I'm not sure what would happen next
Ending 3. Reincarnation: after she kills the evil thing she is reincarnated into another person or (this might be real stupid) she is reincarnated into an object that her lover sees or uses daily. Like maybe his sword or a tree he always walks by.
Ending 4: the prophecy was read wrong and she won't really lose her life she will just lose the things that make life worth living.
Ending 5: after she defeats the evil one she is magically thrown back to her own world

Do you think I should have her have to kill herself or should I have her "vanish" after she defeats the evil one? Which idea did you like best? If any. I'm open to combining ideas too.

I really don't want to kill off my character and I don't want to separate her and her lover. So if I turn her into a "spirit" or a tree I'd have to some how bring her back...I guess.

Comments?

Thanks for reading this long post.

Sat, 2011-12-31 10:11

shep5377

Is this your YA work? If so I would suggest having someone kill themselves wouldn't be appropriate (sacrificing themselves is different of course). I think at 11 chapters in though you have so much yet to happen that you should just keep writing and see what happens. Shep

Sun, 2012-01-01 02:20

well-wisher

Some suggestions for a happy ending: she puts the 'evil force' into something else and destroys it. she takes something that is poisonous to the evil force but not to her. she meets someone who devours 'evil forces' she enters a place where the 'evil force' cannot exist she unites with friends (or a lover) and their combined will is too strong for the evil force the evil force is lured out of her by something attractive to it (which turns out to be a trap) the evil force meets its polar opposite and, like matter and anti-matter, they destroy each other she lets another force, a positive force, enter her and it pushes the negative force out she's only bluffing about killing herself but the evil force doesn't know that and leaves her body in order to save itself there is a sickness that can destroy the evil force and she infects herself with it she creates an illusion that lures the evil force out of her and into a trap rather than dying she just goes to sleep for a long time and the force, which doesn't want to sleep, has to find another body she lures the evil force into a part of her body and then cuts off that body part she enters a cocoon and goes through a metamorphosis that is deadly to the evil force she joins with her lover/friends and becomes a new person within which the evil force cannot exist

Oh look, a link. I wonder where it leads.

JoHn

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