jpskewedthrone | Writing Update (Reply)

I've finished the final chapter! That doesn't mean I'm done of course, because I have an epilogue. But since the epilogue should be 1/5th the size of a chapter (maybe 1/3rd for this book), that means I'm SOOOOOOO close to being done. I like the ending too. Well, the ending, I like. The ending after the ending I'm not so sure about. The ending is emotionally fraught, which I like, and I think I made it heartwrenching for Varis, the other characters, and hopefully the reader. The ending after the ending isn't as satisfying to me because, even though it has to happen, it's tying up loose ends and my previous books don't really tie up loose ends. Pretty much book 1 and 2 end on the real ending, on the emotional high, and there's nothing much after that. This one, being the final book in the trilogy, can't do that. I need to clean up the house before I leave it for now (to be revisited later, I hope) and all that tidying just isn't as satisfactory to me as the emotional ending. I'm hoping the epilogue proves emotional enough for the reader that it will count as a second ending and leaves everyone (including me) emotionally satisfied with the trilogy. Which means of course that the epilogue is probably going to be a bitch to write.

But enough rambling on my writing high of the moment. Here's the word count, not expected to go much higher. I have to add numerous scenes in the rewrite, but hopefully I'll be trimming up scenes as well, so the book won't grow TOO much bigger. (My rewrites have never decreased the size of a book; and the rewrites suggested by my editor have never decreased the word count either.)