John asked Marcy Dermansky:

Marcy, Aren't your endings a sort of stepping forward from the contradictions and dead ends sometimes of life into all the possibilities good and bad, riskinesses and crazy hopefulnesses of the future?

Marcy Dermansky John,

I think you might have answered this question for me.

I love to write open endings. I think this can be maddening, but I want the stories to continue past the page. In my first novel Twins, Chloe shoots a basket and the novel ends when it is suspended in the air.

I have answers to so many of the open questions that are not answered in my novel -- what happens next.

Spolier, I know the basket goes in -- even if I didn't write that on the page. I think that does point to the crazy hopefulness of the future. Just like you said.

Thanks for asking this question. And here is a teaser, I might even be working on a sequel of a novel to remain unnamed.

Marcy

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