The very last word of your book/series?

Conversely, my story Crystallis ends with "life."

I'm planning on the last word of my Na No project being "home."

It goes very well with the earned happy ending my characters get! :3

"And now it was time to return to the place they happily called home."

edited 1st Oct '11 1:46:40 PM by Misuki

"Me." There was originally going to be another scene after it, but I cut it out. Also, it's a perfect way to make it tie back to an earlier line: "Regrets, huh? That's got nothing to do with me." Considering the hero's character development, it's quite apt IMO.

I think Red Storm Rising managed it just so with doing the last word as "Mooring."

As for me, the last word of my old Gundam stuff is meaningless without context.

The Last Laugh's is "ashes", which is actually thematically appropriate.

Ah, it is spoken by a team of scholars/special force who came from future (2140) as their spaceship/time machine flies out of the portal. They came to present (2025) to apprehend a cyborg/technopath criminal who escaped to the past using an illegally created pocket time machine. Of course, it's not the only reason why they came, but that's irrelevant. It's The Stinger, really.

Come to think of it, the last-word-if-you-don't-count-the-epilogue to Lit's Green Earth is "regret," which probably makes it sound ultra-depressing. But the context is the phrase " empty of regret," which is a lot happier... sort of.

My current work is going to be kept online, but I do know what's going to be the very last word of it. It's going to be a link with the text "Next >>", and it will take the clicker to an editable page.

I have three, two short, one long-ish.

"Jenny" (main char's name)

"Him" (Or "All" if one counts the epilogue)

and "Again"

...

Ohhh...

edited 2nd Oct '11 9:02:04 PM by chihuahua0

That is clever.

*clap clap*

It seems less impressive when you consider that my current work is being hosted on a wiki so that the reader can Wiki Walk through the story and fill in gaps in the story themselves. Heck, only one of the "Next >>" links actually leads to an already-written part of the story so far.

"And then John was a brony"

edited 5th Oct '11 7:54:26 AM by Anthony_H

Mine is "complete", in which the cycle of violence that has been present throughout the story finds its end in the modern era, where the original series started.

"The sun dazzled the old demon's eyes, and his illusion broke - his heart was failing him, after a long fourteen centuries. As a final breath was drawn, he smiled: things were finally complete."

So far my story will be ending on "away". As in, "and looked away" or "turned his face away".

There's a verse of And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda that ends with the line "and they turned all their faces away" that just struck a real chord with me as the perfect, simple way to convey regret, guilt, and discomfort.

Fired, as in shot was fired.

I'm considering the idea of ending every arc of a multi-part story with the word "human," but I'm not sure anyone would notice.

Book One: "screaming."

Entire Series: "silence."

Oh gosh i dunno. Likely...hmm. that's a good question.

"Alone".

At the end of "no longer alone."

"...dark," as in:

"He walked away, into the dark."

Granted, this is far from certain, the least reason of which being my Lewis Trondheim-esque aversion to concrete endings. Nonetheless, these are the words that seem the most final, especially when one takes into account the exchange that precedes them.

I am, to use my friend Erika's terminology, an event-based writer; the big events, climaxes and turning points come to me most easily and are usually the inspiration around which the rest of the story is built. The ending is one of these, so I usually know the ending from an early stage, and often know the last word and stick with it.

Of the works I have in progress at the moment, Book Four of my Sailor Moon series ends on the word "happy", which is pretty ironic as it's a massive Downer Ending. The last word of Book Seven (the last book) is "day" (echoing the ending of Book One on "night") and the last word of the epilogue and thus of the series is "solitude".

My Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni series ends on "Oyashiro-sama" if you exclude the epilogue; including it, "will". (Since that's not very informative, the last four words are "I know she will.")

edited 16th Oct '11 3:59:19 PM by Vilui

I CAN NOW ANSWER THIS QUESTION WHOOH.

One.

Book 1:

"All right team, let's throw a surprise party for that asshole!

Book 2:

He flicked coin, which dropped on the ground. Not checking the sides, he simply picked it up and put it in his pocket.

Book 3:

"Let's do this."

Book 4:

"No, don't even think about it."

edited 17th Oct '11 6:31:10 AM by dRoy

"most."