I am sooo ending-phobic.

[ladyjanelly]

Y'all know how I'm either really bad at or scared of ending fics, right?

Just sent off the last chapter of the homeless verse to Embroiderama.  

So nervous.

So bad at this part of fic writing.  I mean no confidence.  Very little experiance.  And this makes it or breaks it.

Arg. 

Comments

[fannishliss.livejournal.com]

First of all, I have intensely enjoyed being along for the ride. I remember a long time ago in the Sentinel verse, a writer called Francesca had a long series of stories that eventually came to an end. It was very satisfying.

With your, each part has been so delicious to savor that one doesn't want it to end! Yet I can feel it organically coming to a close. Jeff is just about ready to go back and find his family; Jared and Jensen have faced down a lot of problems and committed themselves to each other; Jensen's going to get medical attention and see if further help is needed, etc. Plus with his identity cleared up and his family found, Jensen has a lot of resources; like he could get them a nicer place if they want, or do as much art as he wants all the time.

Maybe he'll never want to go back into architecture -- maybe he'll be happier as an artist than he ever was before-- that seems to be the case from what his family has said.

The biggest unanswered question, for me, is why the cop had Jared arrested -- out of spite, or what? Maybe the cop was anti-homeless?

Anyway congrats on a great story! ending, shmending!

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Hanson just didn't like the homeless. Thought of them like vermin, and Jared hastling him over vermin pissed him off at Jared. And his boss was wanting someone to pin the blame on for a citizen getting beat up so Jared was a handy target.

I'm glad it felt like the ending was coming in an organic sort of way. I could have thrown in some extra complications (which may be extra short stories) like Karen's husband coming or Jeff looking up his old family or one of Jensne's former fuck buddies showing up, but really the story I was trying to tell about identitiy and "what makes a healthy person" was told and anything more was just dragging it out.