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"How to Write a Modern Ending!"
>Step 1: Write a satisfying plot with a beginning, middle, and end
>Step 2: Delete the last 10% of that, so your book seemingly ends early, with no satisfying end and countless questions left unanswered

And that's it, you've done it, you've written the ending to every modern book.

>> No.16802015

I have a really hard time finding good things to read.

>> No.16802025

People write market fiction so that they can release trilogies or series so those endings are intentionally ambiguous.

Literary fiction doesn’t care about resolution so it’s endings don’t make sense anyway.!

>> No.16802190

>>16802015
Most book stores will have displays set up recommending new books

>> No.16802201

>>16801962
Like European films kek fucking hacks.

>> No.16802224

>>16802015
There are thousands of classics. You realistically should not have a single problem finding books to read, but you don’t actually want to read so you’re coming up with excuses.

>> No.16802499

why would i read modern books?

>> No.16802986

>>16802499
why wouldn't you read modern books?

>> No.16803052

>>16801962
Don't forget to foreshadow the end at the beginning so you can have le epic cyclical nonchronological structure.

>> No.16803303

>>16803052
Foreshadowing doesn’t mean a lack of linear chronology

>> No.16803794

>>16802201
Euro films have better cinematography tho, so it evens out

>> No.16804525

>>16802190
Those displays are always gay and say shit like “GIRL POWER”

>> No.16806007

>>16803303
yes it does

>> No.16806042

>>16801962
Citation needed.

>>16802499
Because you try to imagine a contemporary of Your Favourite Author who never read any of their work despite being historically positioned to understand it on a level you yourself sadly never can. And you see what a waste that is.

>> No.16806082

>>16802015
What's your favourite book?

>> No.16806613

>>16803052
you're gonna tell me 100 years of solitude isn't linear

>> No.16807050

>>16806613
Yes

>> No.16807059

>>16802224
Sorry. T.S. Elliot isnt really my speed.
>>16806082
Tied between The Road and a Clockwork Orange

>> No.16807068

>>16807059
>The Road and a Clockwork Orange
Please read more.

>> No.16807074
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16807074

>plot

>> No.16807080

>>16804525
I troll hard epic style and put 50 shades of grey on the girl power display.

>> No.16807103

>>16807068
Its amazing how you ever get anything read with all the jizz on your face.

>> No.16807331

>>16807080
They’re still selling those?

>> No.16807705

>>16806042
>Citation needed.
My diary desu

>> No.16808492

>>16807103
Calm the fuck down, they’re fine books

>> No.16809352

>>16807074
Fuck off, one can only read so much plotless drivel