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That can also be avoided by having a third-person narration with NO omniscience (you just have to remember to stick with this). This is actually VERY similar in style to have an observer narrate the story in fist person... because that first person narrator won't be using much I, me, my if he/she isn't all that involved in the action.

I know a lot of people don't like head hopping, but I don't have any real issue with it. One thing you can do as first person is develop the character through the way they narrate, not just their dialog.

My problem with writing a story has little to do with 1st, 2nd or 3rd person, omniscience or even limited omniscience. No, my problem is with the climax when suddenly I climax and pop a nut. Then I have no ending to my story because all I have to say after that is "sigh" or "whew". So then I'm done. Any suggestions other than a good spanking?

How to wind up the story successfully? If it is a long complex story like The Lord of the Rings it needs a fair bit of exposition of what happens to the characters afterwards. Tolkein wrote quite a bit more after the main climax to the story to tidy up the loose ends. It wasn't strictly necessary but the reader would have had a nagging sense of "what happened to so-and-so?" if it wasn't there.

In the Cherub books (OK, not long and complex these) Robert Muchamore tackles this head on by having an epilogue telling in note form what happened to each of the characters (even the minor ones) next. Their stories don't need to be written, just acknowledged.

Our genre is no different from others in this respect, there needs to be some sort of calming down of the story even if it's a short one (think of it as literary rubbing in of arnica gel or cold cream). It can be brief and hint at whether the characters live happily ever after or not, or be a more fulsome description of the way the happy couple got married and set up home/the schoolboy went to University and got a good degree/the brat remained bratty and suffered regular strappings, but I think it should suggest that the characters' stories are not complete, it's just the end of what is being written about here (unless the character dies at the end of excess excitement due to spanking).

Pop a Viagra, wait half an hour or so, and try, try again.

LMAO ... I asked for help in writing in the 3rd person and now we are talking about ...

"my problem is with the climax when suddenly I climax and pop a nut" and

"Pop a Viagra, wait half an hour or so, and try, try again."

This is one great site.

CS

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