Novel ending

Happy endings....
I'm a sucker for happy endings. Though I've read a few books with sad endings, but the sucker in me finds some happiness hidden in it in some fold of the book :)

Ambiguous endings!

Look! There's a pie in the sky!

I can't write happy endings that easily. But when I do, it's amazing!

I don't mind a happy, sad, ambiguous ending in a novel as long as it's well done and it moves me! Forced, extra sappy sad/happy endings ruin an otherwise nice book!

Thank you nano friends for responding to the thread. Actually, endings always depends on the demand of the character and plot. When a novel begins with a problem, it usually ends with a solution, a happy ending.

My story is so that i can end either way. That's why i asked about the choices of friends here. I will certainly end the story without solving the problem or solving them problem.

thank you once again friends. good luck to you all.

panigrahisc

+1 for the ambiguous ending.

Also, end it in a way that makes way for a sequel. (just kidding, but well)

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Yes, now ending is also influenced by a Sequel. I have a sequel in mind, precisely. But if a sequel is not planned i may end the life ie portray a death there by ending the chance of a sequel.

You are absolutely right.

thanks

panigrahisc

Ambiguous endings are really nice, but in the end, I much prefer to write happy endings. If I can throw some ambiguity in, all the better. The story I'm working on now, I think, with have a bittersweet ending with just a bit of ambiguity. Though, I don't really plan to write a sequal. Maybe it will happen.

I love reading things with tragic endings, but I'm not tried to write one myself. I guess I get too attached to my characters.

I'm writing about Liberia (West Africa) during their Civil War beginning in the 1990's.

There is a love story between two United States Peace Corps Volunteers (teachers on a Christian mission school) against the background of the buildup to the war and its first beginnings.

The two marry within a year of its beginning but the wife is mortally wounded in an ambush.

She survives to have a few loving moments with her husband and precious daughter.

Years later the daughter returns to Liberia as a Peace Corps Volunteer to teach in the same school as her parents did.

You can argue that it's a happy ending, I guess.

Of course, It is like the "they live happy after" When their sibling came to teach at the same school it is certainly happiness as a reunion is there. In the meanwhile i am really in a dilemma but 'm bending towards an ambiguous ending.
Good luck friend. Thanks.

panigrahisc