I Was Wrong

You know how I've always said that an ending has to make sense to a reader or it won't work, that the reader has to believe it's possible or you'll lose her (or him)? I was wrong. I just saw a story that was incredibly good all the way through to the end, and then the ending was pretty much impossible. And my right brain said, "That would never have happened." And my left brain said, "WHO CARES THAT WAS INCREDIBLE OH MY GOD I LOVED IT I NEED TO SEE IT AGAIN."

If you can write a story so good that your readers' left brains scream that at the end, you're good to go. I'm not that good–yet–but this is the kind of thing that can inspire a woman. No, I'm not going to tell you what it was, it would be spoilerish and you have to hit this one unawares. I'm not even going to reply in the comments to this post so don't bother to badger. But OH MY GOD THAT WAS GOOD. (Yes, really great storytelling is like sex, what makes you ask?)