by DrZaaijer » Sat Feb 18, 2017 1:16 pm
The ending of a transformation story is the steady state after 'all' the ramifications of the transformation has happened. This is what I mean, in the beginning, everyone is in a steady state of normal life. You introduce the characters, and the location. Then the transformation happens, fast or slow and things are in a turmult. Now people adjust to the change and the story moves on. The ending is that place where there is a new normal and everyone has adjusted to whatever has happened. This is your ending. It should logically flow from what has happened and it should flow from the characters motivations and the societal conditions given the phenomenom.
But if you are writing a story that is devoted to the transformation and not the ramifications of the transformation on the character and everyone else, then you have a problem. You aren't writing a story to begin with you are writing a story fragment where you are just trying to describe the transformation and thus you don't have an ending because once the transformation happens that is the end of your tale for you and now you have to slap on an ending and it seems rushed (b/c it is).
Simple case, man becomes a woman. It you concentrate on the physical aspects of how it happens when once the man is a woman the story is over and you have no end. That is the story fragment. But if story is about how the change effects him in the universe, the ending is when everyone (in your universe) has adjusted to the change and that is a real ending to a story Not that there can't be an epilogue or more adventures later. But once he is in some sort of sustainable condition (dead after suicide is a sustainable condition if you like, but so is happily ever after or stuck as a maid, whatever) that is where you can end your story.
In general, I don't start my story until I have some sort of ending in mind. This isn't always the case. In my last story, I didn't know how it would end until I wrote it. But I pretty much always knew that it had to have one of two endings, 1) Jay wins the final bet and goes home feeling very lucky. 2) Jay had to stop because the risk of losing was too great to continue. Both endings were completely rational and thus easy to finish. Then I looked years down the road and thought what must have happened to the characters and there you have an epilogue.
As far as bgleak endings. These transformation stories are sex stories. When it's a sex story its hard to slap on a 'happy' ending. A man that becomes a bimbo, the usual story of this type, is it a happy ending for her to have as much sex as she wants? No it's not, but when you think about it, yeah that is a happy ending. You just don't consider it as one since either the victim is resisting or doesn't know he was changed in the end. Regardless don't worry about making it a happy ending.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you like my work and want to see more of it go to
http://cowdance.com/Main%20Menu.php. From there you can support me on Patreon. My name on Patreon is itsmetoo.