Happy Endings

“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.” — Orson Welles

Do you know when you can claim that you have learned what true love means? It’s when you have anticipated an end to a love story, yet you still love anyway.

A story always has an ending. What that ending is like is up to the readers. I have shared a bit of my life as a writer, but I have yet to tell you about how I create my happy endings. They are not all happy endings in the conventional meaning of the phrase. However, I consider them as such because they make my readers think. That is enough for me.

“Every song ends, but is that any reason not to enjoy the music?” This statement came from the lips of a fictional television character. As a reader myself, I tend to be sad at the end of each book. It doesn’t matter if I read a happy ending or a sad one. Perhaps, more than sadness, it is just a feeling of disappointment that the story had to end. It means that I have to go back to reality again, which I am sometimes reluctant to do.

Now let me tell you how I write my happy endings. Sometimes when I write, I have a tendency to overthink. I worry about things I shouldn’t worry about, and I write as if I have something to prove to someone. Over-thinking is often a huge mistake, especially when it comes to the ending. What usually happens is I try…