tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post2814155141122857427..comments2024-03-05T15:38:56.941-05:00Comments on wordswimmer: Where the River EndsBruce Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13184015349784934372noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-37539006454318388052007-09-21T09:20:00.000-04:002007-09-21T09:20:00.000-04:00Jack,Thanks for sharing the ending for How Green W...Jack,<BR/>Thanks for sharing the ending for How Green Was My Valley. <BR/><BR/>It's a perfect example, I think, of what Nick's talking about--an ending in which you know the characters are "still out there, somewhere."<BR/><BR/>How an author arrives at such an ending... well, maybe you've hit on a way by identifying two of the necessary emotional components that a long-lasting ending needs: Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-64755483799420711252007-09-20T19:04:00.000-04:002007-09-20T19:04:00.000-04:00It's a good topic—what's the best sort of ending t...It's a good topic—what's the best sort of ending to hope for in writing; or even, what is the stamp of an acceptable ending? <BR/><BR/>I know I've felt good, for a while, in reading what's often recognized as a 'Hollywood' ending, but it usually doesn't last. I took down a book I've often thought of as a favorite, for many reasons—"How Green Was My Valley," by Richard Llewellyn (1939), about a gaelwriterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12614646963351308194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-11770490754630480732007-09-18T08:59:00.000-04:002007-09-18T08:59:00.000-04:00Ginger Cats and Kathleen,Thanks for the kind words...Ginger Cats and Kathleen,<BR/>Thanks for the kind words... Glad you stopped by.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-44881209823109268822007-09-18T08:56:00.000-04:002007-09-18T08:56:00.000-04:00Nick,Thanks for the helpful description of the bes...Nick,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the helpful description of the best kind of endings.<BR/><BR/>Those endings, as you say, are the ones where the characters remain vivid and alive in our imagination long after we turn the last page.<BR/><BR/>Maybe we go on seeing these characters because we've come to love them over the course of the story and have learned to "see" them with our hearts? <BR/><BR/>That Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-43938173096069141922007-09-18T08:09:00.000-04:002007-09-18T08:09:00.000-04:00I think the best endings don't seem to end the sto...I think the best endings don't seem to end the story; they just have it fading off into the distance. So you can't quite pinpoint the moment when the characters vanish, so you go on seeing them after they ought to be too far away. And you know they are still out there, somewhere.<BR/><BR/>Those are the endings I like.Nick Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11307045090887391553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-84451511278699170272007-09-18T04:47:00.000-04:002007-09-18T04:47:00.000-04:00Lovely swimming in wonderful words.Lovely swimming in wonderful words.The Ginger Darlingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15571331660164679317noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14706180.post-35942570249893561822007-09-17T05:25:00.000-04:002007-09-17T05:25:00.000-04:00Awww, that's lovely, Bruce. The best endings do c...Awww, that's lovely, Bruce. The best endings do close the circle but leave a tiny question. Thanks for sharing.<BR/><BR/>Kathleen Bolton (on my kid's Blogger account)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06868899486695285905noreply@blogger.com