If you could change the ending of any book, which one would it be?
Firstly I’ve read hundreds of books. Secondly I recall being disappointed once or twice but not who did the awful deed, or what it was called.
That’s good because we writers do our best.
I think the thing I’ve been most disappointed by is when a great book ends. You feel like Oliver from Great Expectations “Please sir can I have some more?” You can almost hear the grim, angry voice spit “no, sit down boy!”.
The book wasn’t written in a day and age when you could yell back “I am sitting down moron and I want more pages!” and kick him in the shins.
That’s how the ending of a great book feels, like you’ve been cheated, torn from a world that no longer wants you. Left laying in the gutter weeping silently over your stupidly fast reading speed.
But you know, the book fairy always has more books, and if you wait quietly, and you’re very, very good, out of the corner of your eye you will see her gently place another book at your side.
Don’t forget to say thank you, and don’t whatever you do go back and throw the book at her if it’s rubbish.
Not a lot of people know this, but she’s the only being who knows where all the books are. One tantrum, one small misstep, and all the books that ever were, are, and ever will be, will vanish into thin air.
We don’t want that do we?
All the writers in the world sitting there going “I was going to write another…erm…wordy thing with pages but there are no words and no pages. All my scribbling things have dried up and my technological writing implement went up in smoke.
No, it doesn’t bear thinking about.
Best love
Amorah – Deb
Deb Hawken - Amorah 