Showing posts with label ending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ending. Show all posts

Sunday, June 14, 2026

Addendum

That's 33% over $90, of course. The only way to get people buying non-ebooks is to make them premium items. Each volume must be printed in the author's blood (cloning will be employed for the purpose).

Saturday, June 13, 2026

The New Formatting Innovation

Everybody's going to skip to the end anyway, so why not include an author-chosen bookmark at the most favorable point? Of course ebooks should have one or even a set, but a "physical release" can have one at a markup of a mere 33%.

Sunday, January 4, 2026

How to End Your Story

If you could figure out some way to have it quit to DOS, you should. Nothing's more satisfying than that.

Thursday, March 27, 2025

On Originality

People do covers of songs all the time, but if I ctrl-c ctrl-v Lucian, people say I should make up my own material, like an ending. What's that all about?

Wednesday, August 9, 2023

The Future of Literary Psychology

Books that analyze you and give you the ending you want automatically. None of this adventure-choosing messiness.

The Even More Future: Books that give you the ending you don't want.

Thursday, July 13, 2023

Proper Endings for Fantasy Main Characters

If the main character doesn't become king, there should probably be an appendix explaining he becomes king of some other place later. Even the first Dragon Quest understood this much.

Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Addendum

"It was only a dream," the book begins. Would you read a book like that? Me neither, but it might just be crazy enough to work.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

The Logical Implication

Put the ending at the front of the book, then write, "But how did this happen? Read on to find out!" The only problem is that then you actually have to write a good ending. Might be a little tough.

What Makes for a Good Ending?

Doesn't matter. Nobody's going to make it that far anyway.