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Xicon · Unfettered Joined: 06 Jul 2011 Posts: 388

The most important thing about ending any work of horror is to provide a conclusion, but not necessarily a resolution. A wonderful way to make your audience not scared of your antagonist is to provide resolution in the form of explaining him and defeating him - the minute you provide your audience an explanation of his motives and the methods to defeat him is the minute your audience begins to rationalize the ways it cannot happen to them. Resolution is a comfort you do not want to afford your audience if you want your work to have a lasting impact on them, to remain truly scary long after your work has ended.

That said, you must CONCLUDE your series to the point that the audience feels as if the story has ended. You don't have to explain everything in your story, and you shouldn't, but you DO have to provide a final entry/post/whatever that wraps things up, so to speak, providing an end to the plot.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:46 pm

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KrisTrauma · Unfettered Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 492 Location: OK

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Lithp · Unfictologist Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 1303

How would Sealed Evil In A Can be taken?

**Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:56 pm

KrisTrauma · Unfettered Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 492 Location: OK

it could end on a downer.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:00 pm

gottagofast · Boot Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 56

I actually write my stories backwards, the major twist and ending is always thought of first. Problem is, I often get stuck getting to the ending. Middle part kills me.

**Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:41 pm

Fotzepolitic

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:48 am

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Lithp · Unfictologist Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 1303

That's why I just kill everything I love.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:51 am

Fotzepolitic

Whereas if you write backwards, it's like bringing everything you love back to life! Very Happy

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:52 am

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Lithp · Unfictologist Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 1303

I hate resurrection.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:55 am

Fotzepolitic

Really? You never watched Jaws on rewind so that it becomes a movie about a shark who vomits up so many people they have to open a beach?

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:08 am

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Lithp · Unfictologist Joined: 04 Mar 2012 Posts: 1303

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:12 am

Fotzepolitic

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:35 am

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gottagofast · Boot Joined: 09 Jun 2012 Posts: 56

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 11:57 am

Baronness · Decorated Joined: 05 Sep 2012 Posts: 216 Location: Texas

I think part of the problem is that MH hasn't ended yet, so NO ONE KNOWS WHAT THE SUPER ORIGINAL CANON ENDING FOR A SLENDERSERIES WILL BE and it kills them.

But, seriously, I don't even know. I think I have a pretty original & creepy ending in mind for my series, but I could be wrong. One of the 300+ out there could have thought of it already and might beat me to it.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:32 pm

KrisTrauma · Unfettered Joined: 19 Apr 2011 Posts: 492 Location: OK

Canon to what? Every slenderseries is canon to itself. Calling MH the original canon is offensive towards other creators.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:03 pm