Positive and Live Happily Ever After - Flags

[p_white98]

There are so many negative stories, I find it depressing. I'd really like to find the positive stories. Where the characters live HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

For your consideration, I suggest that titles of such works end with "+++" (minus the ").

Or maybe there should be a new story category "Happily Ever After".

How about a category called "Bitter Divorce"? 75% of stories would go in there.

I know a guy who has written several stories that became movies on the Hallmark Channel. They have rules which prohibit stories with divorce or death.

 

[THBGato]

Have you looked in the Romance category?
I haven't read many there, but those I have all tend to be Happily Ever After.

If lesbians don't put you off, then I invite you to try some of my stories. "What a difference a day makes..." or "Love is a Place" for instance.

 

[SyleusSnow]

You can do tag searches for "HEA" and "happily ever after"

Most of my stories are happy... though usually open ended so the reader has to picture the "ever after" part on their own.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I feel like most stories on Lit end happily, or at least hornily, ever after.

With the obvious exceptions of Horror and Loving Wives.

I'm not going to tag my stories with the ending because I prefer not knowing the ultimate destination of a story before I've even started.

 

[SyleusSnow]

I'm not going to tag my stories with the ending because I prefer not knowing the ultimate destination of a story before I've even started.

Exactly. Why ruin the tension by giving away the game? Though there are many HEA stories so tagged. And anything in the Romance category has to end HEA (or at least happily for now) or it just ain't a romance, at least according to commercial romance writing rules.

The only vaguely similar tag I ever use is "drama" for stories with lots of that. Some readers like it and search for it, others want a straightforward meet cute insta-love story with the characters getting frisky right away no drama.

 

[StillStunned]

I've tagged one of my stories "happily ever after", and even included it in the tagline:

The Rivals Ch. 05: Orgy of Death
Avilia and Sligh earn their Happily Ever After the hard way.

But the whole series is enemies-to-friends, all leading up to the characters getting together.

And since then I've written four more stories in the series, so the adventure continues, only now with the characters being a happy couple instead of rivals.

 

[RoperTrace]

There are so many negative stories, I find it depressing. I'd really like to find the positive stories. Where the characters live HAPPILY EVER AFTER.

For your consideration, I suggest that titles of such works end with "+++" (minus the ").

Or maybe there should be a new story category "Happily Ever After".

How about a category called "Bitter Divorce"? 75% of stories would go in there.

I know a guy who has written several stories that became movies on the Hallmark Channel. They have rules which prohibit stories with divorce or death.

Since my wife has HM playing several hours per week, many of their stories actually begin with a death of a spouse. The sad husband going through life raising their child, along with the trusty Golden Retriever. But I get your point on Happy Ever After themes. I listen to lots of stories online, and the Happy ending stories usually leave a warm feeling when they conclude, vs. the bitter 'get-even' or worse endings.

 

[cally420]

I am SO with you!

In my writing life, I have generally been inspired by works that have an ultimately optimistic outlook. In the SF space, I actually really like Spider Robinson (who has been seen by some as a sort of spiritual successor to Robert Heinlein and in fact completed one of RAH's unfinished novels.

I also write a fair amount of horror/dystopia that is, inevitably, negative. I'm reasonably successful with it BUT I am also bummed out by my own writing. I can write the deliciously ironic twist where people get fucked over ("nice try, asshole...") but I would much rather read happy ending shit.
FWIW I've tried (consciously) to make my writing here positively slanted.

 

[BellaBestia]

Sorry I don’t mean to yuck your yum. But most HEA stories are one-dimensionally boring and Hallmark tv movies are not the standard I’d want to hold myself to, creatively or even personally. They are here, under Romance, hope you find and enjoy them.