Desiderius Price

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In a comedy, a dream within a dream within a dream for ending after ending could be absolute gold, depending on how well it’s written. Though in more serious dramas, less so. (As an aside, I will use smaller dream blocks within the story to help explore a character’s unspoken fears, aspirations, etc.) My potter story has something akin to the same dilemma, more in a couple people split off (think B-group), incommunicado (& presumed dead) until the climax. If I stuck to “A” POV, it’d get darker and darker, with a last second Deus Ex (not great). When I get back to that section, I intend to simply alternate between the two sides, muddle my way through it, somehow. However, on alternate endings, I’m thinking of having it be a sim/game with Harry & Ron played by two gamers in immersive VR… it’d be fitting to their characters. Now, in your story, you could turn it into a two parter. You’d cover up to ending with main character feeling good about it (prelude with a few hints to the smarter character may do something), and second story would be that other character acting on the advantage and pressing forward for more chapters.

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Can you do both? Maybe with different character POVs? One thinks “all is great” while the other has some dreadful feeling? Or… there’s the classic “first take was a dream”.

I *really* wanted to see the Scouring of the Shire… but alas, they didn’t include that. TBH, it could’ve used six (or more) movies, and that still wouldn’t have covered all of it.

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Clue, the movie, had alternate ending after alternate ending.

Only 2k? How’d you keep it so short?

It’s a TRAP!

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ACK! (panics… runs and hides, trembling in fear)

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I’m mulling something over, may have an entry this year.

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Welcome, welcome. Hijacking threads (within reason) can happen around here Obviously, the archive supports both ways, in that you can publish them individually, or lump them together into a single one. IMO, if the oneshot stories are tightly related/coupled, then a single story as a collection would make sense. If they’re not related, then separate stories would be less confusing. One pro of separate postings is that you’d get separate hits/reviews for each one. A pro to multi-chapter is you’ve got better control to the sequence the reader will most-likely browse through them, if that helps with cohesion between the oneshots. Anyways, welcome to the archive & forums! - DP