Sep 20: Not the capital of Finland

[Blue Blur]

'Tis funny, but it was so predictable! <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[rogue-kun]

<!--QuoteBegin-Blue Blur+Sep 21 2005, 11:39 AM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Blue Blur @ Sep 21 2005, 11:39 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> 'Tis funny, but it was so predictable! <!--emo&:blink:--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /blink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='blink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Any Good stories ending Should be predictiblem, if it impossible to predict, then the Storiy did not do enough to lead yu to believe the ending would happen.<br><br>[easy if prediciblityis a diffrent issue]

[Phoenix]

I disagree. I prefer a story to present me with a multitude of possible endings and leave me in the dark about exactly which one it's going to be right up until it happens. If a story's ending can be worked out by the time you've got half way through it, then there's really no <i>point</i> to the remainder. I agree that a completely random ending can be bad, but so can a completely clich

[GamemasterAnthony]

I prefer a story I can manipulate to my will through fanfiction! MWAHAHAHAHAHA! *bricked* OW! I was kidding!<br><br>Anyways, I had a feeling this was the case. Still...I think the attack of the homework wouldn't have turned her into a vegetable. More like the death of a thousand paper cuts!

[Tom Flapwell]

<!--QuoteBegin-Phoenix+Sep 21 2005, 02:28 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Phoenix @ Sep 21 2005, 02:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> If a story's ending can be worked out by the time you've got half way through it, then there's really no <i>point</i> to the remainder. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Yet we sometimes reread books. It's typically the details that make them good the first time.<br><br>But I admit that the first read is always a different experience, whether better or not, than a repeat read. The trick for a writer to make a good first read, I suppose, is to make the ending (internally) logical but not without some kind of surprise.

[Caoimhin]

Yep. For example it was obvious in LotR that frodo would reach Mt. doom. But it was not actually Frodo who threw the ring in, it was Golem who fell into the lava pit accidently. In the end Frodo basically succombed to the ring but Golem took it away from him and then... Whooops! It was predictable yet unpredictable. O and by the way Cella Insania translates to The Room of Insanity (roughly, its Latin), La Chambre de Lou translates litterally into The Chamber of the Insane (I forgot to put the extral 'La, thats french) and then finally the last one is actually in Finnish and basically says something similar to the others. The last jibberis I was speaking was a mixture of about 5 different langauges and it translates into "For all evil things come in three(s)". I love only translaters <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> .

[rogue-kun]

<!--QuoteBegin-Tom Flapwell+Sep 21 2005, 04:56 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Tom Flapwell @ Sep 21 2005, 04:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> <!--QuoteBegin-Phoenix+Sep 21 2005, 02:28 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Phoenix @ Sep 21 2005, 02:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> If a story's ending can be worked out by the time you've got half way through it, then there's really no <i>point</i> to the remainder. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br>Yet we sometimes reread books. It's typically the details that make them good the first time.<br><br>But I admit that the first read is always a different experience, whether better or not, than a repeat read. The trick for a writer to make a good first read, I suppose, is to make the ending (internally) logical but not without some kind of surprise. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Exactly my point

[Bocaj Claw]

Make two more and you get a honorary trident courtesy of Claw Corp. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[rogue-kun]

<!--QuoteBegin-Bocaj Claw+Sep 21 2005, 11:40 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (Bocaj Claw @ Sep 21 2005, 11:40 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> Make two more and you get a honorary trident courtesy of Claw Corp. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> <img src='http://home.comcast.net/%7Erogue-bfl/sm ... nfused.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> two more what?

[Richard K Niner]

Two more points, I guess.

[Bocaj Claw]

Hes got it.