Do I have an unsatisfying ending? http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783 EssentialParadox My primary character starts the story searching for a antidote for his son's illness. Encountering obstacles along the path, he ultimately solves a mystery and problem that was not his own. After overcoming this — and gaining the antidote in the process — he returns with the antidote only to find his son is now missing. And this is where I close the story. The story of his son is not the story I am telling, it just happens to be the inciting action to get the primary character where he needs to be. But is this an unsatisfying ending? Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:42:17 +0000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_899317 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_899317 JacenTheBard Unsatisfying? Hardly. It's a great rug-pull ending that would be a perfect setup for a sequel, if you plan to do that. If you don't, then maybe it's unsatisfying, but only because I'd expect that to be the hook into book 2. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:51:49 +0000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_900301 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_900301 jordan.williams42 I agree, unless by missing you mean dead. If that's the case it will only work if the character has an excellent victory before he comes home. Then it would be very emotional and upsetting but that doesn't mean unsatisfying. not enough books make you feel these days. However, if he's not dead and he's just vanished, Jacen's right, sequel time! he could have been kidnapped, or set off to find a cure himself etc hope that helps Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:38:01 +0000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_903652 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_903652 EssentialParadox Thanks, your replies did alleviate my worries a lot. :) Yeah I do plan a sequel. Hehe. I'm such a marketer. Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:06:52 +0000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_921845 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_921845 SandyGunfox You're not the only one whose ending only makes sense as a sequel hook. My MC slowly turns into a complete monster by the end of the book (war crimes, violent acts against civilians, armed rape at one point, things like that). And then at the end of hte book, he seduces the woman who's been interviewing him the whole time, steals the report she was compiling, and edits it to make himself look good, turning it in for her and thereby getting away with <em>everything</em>. ...only so he can grow up and renounce his evil ways in the sequel. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:54:36 +0000 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_930683 http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/adventure/threads/45783?page=1#forum_thread_comment_930683