scene endings

Years of writing fan fiction, off and on, many more years of reading all the books and all the fic. And yet I still cannot end a bloody scene without a character leaving the room. I can start a scene anywhere, yet I can't get from one thing happening in a story to another thing happening without someone making an exit or an entrance. (Or the characters having sex, so that it sort of fades to black.)

Sometimes - quite often - I do it on purpose now, as an in-joke with myself about a terrible writing practice that I find impossible to shake.

This post brought to you by all the Magicians fic I am not supposed to be writing, because I am supposed to be writing a blog post, a conference schedule, a business case, and all the emails.