My book will have a happy ending! How about you?

My ending is neither happy or sad, pretty much the motto of 'pick yourself up, keep going'. It's going to be sweet though, I've got two different scenarios worked out, I'll pick my favourite out of them, but they're both fairly nice.

Given the circumstances, my book will end mostly happily for my MC.

It begins with such a tragedy that it's hard to call it a happy ending exactly. But given the circumstances. She will learn enough and walk away from enough that I'd definitely call it positive.

i have no idea what's going to happen, but i have a feeling it's not going to be 'good'.

I start my book at the end, when the character is a happy, successful woman with a healthy family and political influence. She tells the daughter of an old friend the story of how she went from isolation and despair at the state of the world, to trying to bring about positive change in her community. It's not a Utopia or anything, but my original idea was to be an anti-dystopia. There is unhappiness in the beginning in the middle though.

My ending is definitely going to be happy, I'm not at all a fan of unhappy endings. Well, I don't mind bittersweet endings, but definitely no tragedy.

My ending is going to be very, very unhappy and as tragic as possible. Hey hey hey...evil chuckle...

My book will have an abrupt ending, mid-sentence, right before

Mine will have a neutral ending, with the possibility of happiness in the future.

Depends: do you think having lost your job, quit your career, and having your mother die of cancer bad?

then, yeah it's gonna suck.

but if you think this'll lead to a wonderful new chapter in life full of self-realization and a renewed purpose in life- then it's gonna be a good one.

Yes! Happy endings FTW.

Afraid not. When I got a little ways through, went ahead and wrote the ending when it came to me. Never know for sure though. Could still change.

As I've mentioned before, my novel will not read in chronological order. I'm not sure what scene will take place at the end, but I'm leaning towards something that would be considered happy, though will read more as bittersweet considering, ultimately, my character dies rather tragically.

Happy ending?
What's that?

I'll be shocked if my MC survives 50000 words. That being said, I'll try to end on a high note. People can use her death as inspiration, or something. We'll see.

I once read a quote about the difference between a book and real life, which is that a book ends while life goes on. So that's how I'm choosing to look at my story, because I love my characters too much to end their story just like that. :)

My characters will all end up where they started, except slightly worse off than they were at the beginning.

In the end, the reader is left to speculate whether or not the MC dies.

I wanted so badly to end it happy, to prove that the world is beautiful and humans are truly inherently good, but I literally HAD to kill my setting/second MC. I'm basing it on Jungian psychology, and I forgot about the Shadow until halfway through the plotline. Once I added that character, everything hit the fan. (Literally, there's a giant fan.)

I'm still in the process of grieving over the loss of my happy ending.

My ending is ambiguous in a way... several ways, actually...

My MC dies, but he (for reasons explained in the book) doesn't know he's dying and, in fact, is estatic at the time (again for reasons explained there).
I am using my MC's name as my pseudonym. Therefore, if he wrote the novel, then how could he have written his own death? Therefore maybe he didn't die (oh, the joys of torturing imaginary english classes :P)!
If, in fact, he has died, his life was so miserable that he'll be much better off postmortem. No, I am very much no promoting suicide, this is merely fiction and life can always get better unless you're a character in my book, so stay alive please!

So, depending on how you read it, it might be a tragic ending or it might be non-sad/happy. *shrug*

Assuming that I ever get to the ending I'm fairly certain that it won't be "happy" per se. My stories usually end on a happy note, but not this one. I'd like to try and leave it open for my hypothetical, non-existent readers to think that MC along with all her multiple personalities could end up happy some day in the distant future.

My ending won't be the happiest ending possible, but it won't be utter tragedy, either. There's a love triangle with a family involved on one side of it, so somebody's going to get hurt no matter what the outcome. However, I feel that if nobody dies, goes to prison, or loses everything, it can't be all bad. The characters work hard to clean up the mess they've made -- the end.

The monster has a pretty good fate coming to him, though. He won't be sold to the circus or kicked onto the street or anything.

Mine will have a hopeful ending. That's good, right?

Some characters will probably end up bad, some good. Hard to say for sure.

But they'll continue, I'm not planning on killing anyone. They just have self-realization and all, and story ends. S'what it's about.

If I bring them back in another book sometime (my characters like to weave in and out of books at whim, go unified world) we'll see how they turned out.

Mine won't be happy. I don't know exactly how it will end yet, but it will be somewhere between unhappy and tragic.

I never write happy endings, I write realistic endings, so that's what I'm doing. It will be real and hopeful but not "happy."

...oh, you people and your planning. I have no earthly idea how my novel is going to end. I usually go for something happy-ish with occasional bittersweet zing, but this one? No idea. I don't even know what'll happen in the next chapter. Improvisation is good times?

Thats the idea I'm indulging in utopian emancipation with a lot of real battles en route in a visionary fashion.

Happy ending, although from the POV of some of the characters, it will be perceived as a tragedy.

Mine has a happy ending. Though, like in life, not everything is perfect... so I suppose really it is a bittersweet ending. Well, I mean.... yes, it's a pretty happy ending! For the most part. Wow, why can't I decide things!!?

Okay, it's a bitterseet/happy ending.

I'm not sure exactly what will happen at the end of my novel...my MC is going to recover some rather unhappy memories, but I think she'll be able to process them and move on and be more complete for knowing. I don't know what the last image or scene will be though. Nothing tragic but nothing neatly wrapped up into "they all lived happily ever after" either.

Mine does. I didn't know how it was going to end until Angel Boy piped up and told me. He made me write it already. *headdesk*

Yay for happy endings! Mine shall have one, I hope. :p

Let's hear it for healing and redemption! The world needs more of it, so I'm going to try to write in a realistic dose.

I'm with michaelphilipsmith: not a big fan of the 'miserable=worthy/literary'! But, unlike many of you, the end of my novel is not yet in shouting distance, so I'd better get off the message boards and back to the keyboard...