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What would you think about someone who writes about your problems? What if I love writing about problems from our life and transform them in a story with a happy ending?
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that they need to get a life. I'm Kidding! I'm Kidding! the whole idea actually interests me :)
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It is a good idea. But I cannot do that since I am very poor in writing. For my academic essays itself, I use to order essay from some cheap essay writing service. But it is a quite good idea. I like it.
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It's definitely a very interesting idea. I can see how that would be empowering, like if you wrote about a kid who was ostracized from school or someone who was homeless and gave them happy endings. I'm not sure what you'll do with the idea, but I like it!
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Yeah, I agree. It sounds like a good idea.
It would be nice if there was a site where people could write in with their problems, and then the author could choose a problem and make a story about. It could be a series about happy endings for real life situations.
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I like this idea. It's not only creative, but it could be empowering to someone going through a hard time. For example, if you decided to write a happy ending for someone who's been unemployed for awhile (ending: he/she gets a dream job), that person (and others in the same situation) could read it and feel encouraged. That encouragement could possibly lead to motivation, and motivation could eventually lead to finding that dream job. I know it's a stretch, but it could happen!
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I guess it sounds good, but in my opinion, rather than a happy ending, it would be more empowering to overcome the difficulties-and that to be the focus of the story, because let's face it happy endings in real life are so very rare, it would feel more realistic if the main character simply take's his problem's head on and overcomes them, in the absence of a traditional happy ending.
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Hey, I love happy endings! Happy endings abound!
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I did that once long ago with a five chapter novella but it was done a little bit differently than you describe. The story involved incidents from my childhood, including some serious problems (like when I almost died), which were comically described through the eyes of the child that I was, as well as the adult who was writing the story - sort of a melding of the two minds as-it-were. SInce the stories were rendered truthfully (in the main) some chapters are resolved happily and others aren't. Anything in the novella which could remotely be considered true, was true, and the fanciful aspects were obviously untrue. Case it point: the main character, me, has conversations with philosophers and other historical characters which are tangential to the plot line of the stories in the individual chapters.

Some people like the novella, others don't - personally, it leaves me indifferent. *Shrugs*
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