It really depends
Sometimes it's necessary because the characters have temporarily gone their separate ways and since nothing is happening, let's skip to where these two characters meet up again and maybe recap to see if others are in a good future or whatever
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- often times these also end with an ambiguous happy ending. It's dumb.
Like those "he woke up from the dream and then years later, person that looks like (character) appears in front of him! The end."
Like, there's not gonna be a sequel so why do that? It feels lazy.
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Other times it's like
"I'd rather have seen what you skipped than what you're writing"
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I personally prefer the ones that [i]don't skip[/i], and instead include an interesting in between, so the ending is much more fulfilling.
[spoiler]E.g. ItaKiss, that show surprisingly went the long run and didn't skip from confession to happy family with a kid. It showed the entire in between and made it interesting.
Which was a nice first. good show.[/spoiler]
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No idea how I missed this, apologies. [quote]It really depends Sometimes it's necessary because the characters have temporarily gone their separate ways and since nothing is happening, let's skip to where these two characters meet up again and maybe recap to see if others are in a good future or whatever[/quote] Now that you mention it, I hadn’t realized it but this might be why I felt the need to time skip. The characters did all go their separate ways, and a timeskip was tr only way to have an ending with all the big characters around. [quote][spoiler] - often times these also end with an ambiguous happy ending. It's dumb. Like those "he woke up from the dream and then years later, person that looks like (character) appears in front of him! The end." Like, there's not gonna be a sequel so why do that? It feels lazy. [/spoiler][/quote] Heheh, thankfully I avoided that, though. :p [quote]Other times it's like "I'd rather have seen what you skipped than what you're writing"[/quote] This is definitely something to make sure not to mess up. If what you skipped is more interesting than what you wrote, you have a problem. Thankfully, I think I wrote all the interesting bits, [i]then[/i] skipped.. Hopefully. >.> -- [quote]I personally prefer the ones that [i]don't skip[/i], and instead include an interesting in between, so the ending is much more fulfilling. [spoiler]E.g. ItaKiss, that show surprisingly went the long run and didn't skip from confession to happy family with a kid. It showed the entire in between and made it interesting. Which was a nice first. good show.[/spoiler][/quote] When your book is 600 pages long already, and the main villain has already been dealt with, writing out an entire year isn’t really an option, though. Though, honestly it doesn’t sound like you’re talking about endings at this point anyway. For clarification, it’s not a question of “should I write out the next chapter of their life, or skip to an ending” but rather “should it end in the immediate timeframe after the final fight, or end after a timeskip to the future”.