Wattpad brings you a guest post from Nika Yaya on writing fiction with happy endings.
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Layla must face her past and realize that sometimes emotional baggage just needs to be emptied out.
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Writing The Hope Back
My economics teacher in the 90’s once made a comment I have yet to forget (yes I am that old. She informed us boldly that she didn’t watch TV. When we inquired why, she told us that the current programming encouraged a depleting humanity. At the time I considered the thought way too deep for the topic, but now as I interact more with the world around me, I have come to better understand her thought process.
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Our harsher realities have evolved our stories, exempting happy endings for preferred realistic, edgy finales. Moments when heroes discover their lowest points and manage to overcome them have become somewhat a thing of the past. Too passé, people want to see their real lives reflected in media, right?
Then I discovered a website that allowed me to write again, allowed me to express how I felt about the changing world. And on this website Wattpad I realized there were others like me, others that sought to explain the confusion of reality with hopes of happy endings.
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Baggage Claim began as an idea of a character named Layla who suffers loss and deals with the pain and guilt that accompanies it. It evolved into a story that attempted to show the impact misunderstanding has on a fearful and harsh society, bringing to light how much we refuse to accept even now, and how the smallest impact can affect so much more.
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I realized as I wrote of these things that life could be seen with two endings. One where humanity lives only in the memories of 50’s television scripts, or one where humanity can prove itself every day in small ways in hopes of a bigger impact.
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I don’t think I ever write with the intent to create edgy work, I’ll leave that to those much more hip than I. The decades of reacting to happy endings has taught me to appreciate that sometimes reality deserves a little hope.
Read Nika Yaya’s “Baggage Claim” for free on Wattpad:
Sometimes emotional baggage just needs to be emptied out. Layla left her hometown of Geneva, New York to sail the skies as a stewardess; traveling all over the world in hopes it would rid her mind of the secrets she left behind in her small hometown. But after a tragedy on a flight lands her back in her hometown, Layla must face the demons she has avoided for so long.
