More Blog Space Wasted On Word Of God

So, Para Not-So-Normal keeps sucking me back in, one comment at a time. :\ As of my last comment on it, 100%, I'm done with it, and Fizzbomb is eking out a living in the Yukon somewhere. I'll let everyone draw their own conclusions from now on.

Anyway. Para has convinced me that I am not cut out for writing downer endings (nor am I cut out for reading/viewing them, honestly). Mostly because downer endings make me extremely depressed and leaving Fizzbomb a heartbroken young woman who has decided to completely detach herself from outside contact by holding up in a shelter she'd intended to only inhabit in the event of a worst-case scenario had me so bummed out at work today that the Principal asked if anything was wrong. This man, by the by, is usually extremely busy with his daily tasks and rarely stops to chat with anyone if he's outside his office.

So, my next writing project is going to have one hell of a happy ending. Maybe I'll do a goofy writing piece about a magical girl who just curb stomps all manner of ridiculous villains and market it as a kid's book, what the hell.

I would really like to revisit the idea of someone taking care of a friend who's been mentally broken, and not so much being the driving force behind their recovery so much as providing a stable foundation for the friend to work through their problems and build back up, both with a stable, quiet home and a strong personality that lets the friend tether and ground themselves. And, well, it working (not to full recovery, obviously, unless the character turns out being a psychiatrist) rather than bombing fantastically.

Maybe I'll finish that alternate, happy ending for Para Not-So-Normal and post it up here in prose format. That way, Nessa and Fizz can get their happy ending.

Did I mention downer endings get me extremely depressed? That is, largely, why I want to say here and now I'm severing the ties with Para, and leaving everything as-is to evolve as they will.