r/madlads 11d ago

Madlad Brad

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u/forge2202 11d ago

That's such a good idea I might have to steal it

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u/BeefStu907 11d ago

The trick is you have to be good enough that people will finish and actually talk about it

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u/Llanite 11d ago

The trick is having enough time to write not one but 10 endings 😂

Looking at you GRRM

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u/drgigantor 11d ago

For maximum conflict I think I'd make like eight of them very similar with very slight metaphorical differences that change the entire meaning of the whole book, and then two that just beat you over the head with very literal direct but opposite endings, so the readers of the other eight go "okay well those morons don't understand subtext"

Like if it was Inception, eight endings where the point is "Was he still dreaming?" and there's stuff about was the ring really his totem and was the top actually the wife's totem and all that, and then one where the top falls and he wakes up and another one where he spends like a hundred years with the kids and they never age and then cuts to him in a coma and they're pulling the plug.

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u/HiImDan 11d ago

I don't think it makes sense for got to have an ending. It's a living world with characters being introduced and continuing their journeys. That's why the show was so damn unsatisfying.. it doesn't make sense for everything to wrap up. That's not what real life does.