Writers who didnt finish the story

I think with writers it is not being able to conclude the story or the way you want to conclude the story does not work. Much of it also has to do with time. For instance, when I started writing my novel, I had enough time to write another at the same tme. But what happened was that I needed more time for everything else, so one novel is on the back burner. But it is not out in the workplace yet. I do think that many writers want their novel to be the beginning of a sequence, but never get to it or die before it is finished.. And it is the same with Tv series. That worked very well with the V series, but I am waiting for the continuation of the Prey series that was on ABC and cancelled after one season. I really do not like being put up in the air.

hello cap, I can't remember a movie right now that don't have ending or might lead to having another sequel,unless those movies that really has sequels eg.Starwars etc. I am waiting for the part 2 of "Finding Nemo"

Your discussion made me think about a book that I once read. I don't remember the title or the author of the story, but I remember the unfinished ending, because I got really disappointed. It was a story about a couple who went to a hotel together. They slept in two different rooms and when the woman woke up the next day, her husband was gone. The staff at the hotel claimed that she had arrived alone and that her husband had never been there. There are two different options: The woman is mentally ill and the husband was never there or the staff at the hotel are hiding something and they are lying to her (maybe because they killed her husband) The story is well-written and I found it very hard to guess if the woman was ill or if the staff were criminals. I was looking forward to discovering the truth in the end of the story, but we never get the answer. There was no ending, and I found it very disappointing, because the rest of the story was very good.

I think when an ending is left open because the writer ran out of ideas it shows that the writer got lazy and lost all sense of responsibility for his or her work. i understand writer's block as i have experienced it myself, but when you create a story you must also create an ending. it can be left open for sure, but if you do the open ending has to fit the story and not be there because there was a lack of ideas and so the writer just left it there. when it comes to reading i love open endings as it allows for the story to live on in my imagination and i can ponder the different possible endings to the story myself and can turn it into a feel-good scenario or a tragic scene depending on my mood. Sometimes closure of a story is good, but i do love it when at least some story arcs are left unfinished. when it comes to movies however, i am less fond of open endings as they have become a little too predictable. sometimes they are well done and allow for the same imagination inspiration as open ended books, but not always. these cases are more tricky i find. but then, that's just my personal taste right!?!

According to Aristotle and literary ground... its called cathersis...

I have not encountered a story or movie with no ending. Maybe it depends on the interpretation of the viewer or the reader if he perceives that there has been no ending provided. But I am sure that if there are any in the market, they would not be blockbusters or bestsellers.

i seldom read fiction but sometimes when i do, i will think the same thing in reading a story. i wnt it to keep going or think that it was a dumb place to end it.

Hmm... maybe I am fortunate enough not to have encountered a book or movie that has 'no ending'. I mean... I have seen those horror movies (usually) where the last scene gives a clue that it's not actually over yet... but still the current story more or less has a beginning and an end. I think it will be a bit frustrating to read or watch such stories, and I expect I will be annoyed for a bit, but eventually I'll forget about it, I suppose. =P If I happened to like the characters or the story so far, I'd probably just try to imagine my own ending if I really wanted to. =P Oh wait... I just remembered the last Harry Potter movie... I suppose that falls under this? But I don't really mind that because it is expected to have a continuation. =)

I think it depends, I mean does the climax of the movie/book happen and then during the resolution stage the writer introduces another problem? If that's the case, then I'd say it was set up for a sequel ... then again, I know of one author that has ended books in the middle of a sentence, which of course he did on purpose. There are also some authors that simply can't think of an ending (or they don't want to put the ending on that they originally had), so they sort of muddle through it. Some authors can get away with this based on their names along, but beginning writers normally don't have that luxury. Of course if you are talking about horror, the horror isn't really supposed to end. The movie/book is supposed to leave you feeling scared to turn off a light at night, so these books may or may not have an ending. As for TV shows, if it's cut short ... yes, that would annoy me. ;)

Some one story I like in TV but not more. In many channel the story has been gone so long and long they stretched it without something new on it. Sometime they insert that characters who doesn't know why he entered & lots of climax changed without any feeling. Such a boring things happened so I left that to watch a TV Serial.

I actually started writing because the TV series I loved as a child just stopped, and I was desperate to find out what the ending was. There wasn't one. So I wrote my own. I think it would be bizarre for a novel, though. People don't publish unfinished novels, do they? I suppose they do sometimes publish novels which have a hook for a sequel but then never publish the sequel.