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RE: The Spark + Unbewusstes - Finish The Story Contest - Week #66 @bananafish
Ah... that's what it is. ))) Green mile was also a good movie...a touching one. Tom Hanks was really good there and Michael Clarke Dunken.
You know what... if you want, send me a summary of your novel and the place where you are stuck, and I think I'll be able to end if in the way that you'll be happy with yourself.
Thanks for the offer!
It ended, but it took me 500 pages to get there. So I trimmed it to 350 pages. People tell me to break it into 2 or 3 books. I be like, "Donna Tart didn't do that with her best seller, The Goldfinch, a 750-page tome" (which I have yet to read; I want happy endings, please and thanks, not more tragedy).
I know how the story ends. I just don't know how much of a book readers are willing to read. One says to dump the nephew (and I did), another says to dump the POV of the father, which is such a drastic amputation, it'll never happen. And so on. Too many cooks. Too many conflicting suggestions. Thanks again for offering a fresh eye on it!
I tried to tackle The Goldfinch, but it was too big to swallow.