If you could rewrite any book’s ending, which one would you choose?
You know this is actually quite hard, there are a few books that bug me. Maybe not so much of the ending, but recurring, nemesis, characters in a series. I am thinking of Obadiah Hakeswill in the Sharp series here. I don’t know why but his reappearance bugs me.
But in reality what right do I have to change someone else’s story. I wouldn’t change things, but I might like to see another few chapters…
I have just finished Jurrassic Park… There could have been other survivors… What happened when the military arrived. Oh and why did the film kill off Muldoon? How long were Grant and Saddler kept against their will…etc, etc,etc.
I actually read a few other people’s ideas and I did like this rewrite…
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So maybe write my own additional chapters, or possibly write my own book. Twenty or so years ago I started doing so accidentally. I set homework for my kids in my class to write the start of a story and said to make it fair I would do the same. The kids loved mine so much that it became my homework every weekend to carry it on.
I have a hard copy of about 20,000 of the 40 odd thousand words that I wrote. One day, ha ha, I will get it finished!