So in the end

she becomes a *beep* teacher. One of those who gets students to write alternate endings for novels.

A story doesn't just happen. Writers don't just end them any way that springs to mind. A story like A Tale of Two Cities is carefully designed to lead inexorably to one, unavoidable conclusion. Any good book is. Writing alternate endings is like defacing paintings with smears of peanut butter. It's simultaneously pretentious and disrespectful. Most of all it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of what a story is.

The whole thing comes across like a rationalization for the movie industry to change endings without the writer's permission.