Sunday, July 18, 2010

I Cannot Believe I Have Come to This Point

Feeling incredibly inspired, I began to write the end of the scene where my main character, Elizabeth, gives birth to her first child. I merely meant to tie up loose ends on this plot line and I realized that I was actually ending the book. This is honestly something that I did not know how I was going to do. Ever since I started this book, I pondered how and when I could end this book, and if I could make the ending satisfying for my potential readers, while making them thirst for more at the same time. I think I have done it and completely by accident as well. I actually started crying when I realized what I was doing because I was writing the end of something that I had labored over for so many years. I still have a tremendous amount of work to do, massively editing parts I have already written and began writing parts that I have yet to write. However, to know that I have created an ending has given me strength to continue to work on the unfinished parts. This is so spectacular :)

3 comments:

  1. Hey, congrats! I had a similar experience with my book: I had been blogging for months, and decided to turn it into a novel. My first impulse was to simply rip off a big chunk of posts and clean them up a bit, which I did. But then, where to stop? It wasn't nearly as obvious as I thought it would be.

    I would love to check out your novel sometime!
    Dave
    garofalo.dave@gmail.com

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  2. Yeah I know what you mean about not knowing where to stop. I have a lot of cleaning up to do in my novel, but it's going to be difficult to stop that.

    Thank you for taking an interest in my blog! I'll definitely send you part of my novel.
    Emily

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  3. I get what you mean. You can get so caught up in your characters and the story, then you finally realize that it has to end somehow. That always hard for me to do. But then I think, it's not 'the end', it's just the conclusion of an amazing story. I can see you take your writing seriously, and seem like you have passion for it! Please post some of your novel, I'm very intrigued, you should check out my blog also! Keep up the amazing blog!

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