Finished the first draft of my novella last night!! Yay!! Managed 30 pages to get through the end!

I still want to know WHY I can’t do that every day, but that’s not what this post is about.

I had a lot of trouble figuring out where to end this sucker.

I had a (vague) outline. More of a list really of things I had to wrap up, things I had to explain, etc. And as I went through, it kept getting longer and longer and longer.

And I really couldn’t finish it entirely because I realized that if I went with the way I had planned my hero and heroine would have been brother and sister. Can anybody say “Ew.”

So, I’m back to the drawing board on a way to make my hero immortal.

My husband asked this question: Why does he have to be immortal.

Can’t they just be together for now and then leave the rest unsaid? I said No, but I want your opinions. I mean I suppose if I were writing straight erotica, the “happy for now” would be fine.

But I realized that the “happy for now” in some books, always translates into my mind as “happily ever after.” Doesn’t “happy for now” have to at least have the possibility of “happily ever after?” Your thoughts on the subject would be greatly appreciated.

But anyway, the 20 pages I thought that it was gonig to take to wrap up the book turned into 30 and it’s mostly dialogue so I think I need some layering, which is going to add even more pages (not that it matters- ah, the beauty of epubbing).

But (I use that word too much) The End has come, and for that I’m happy. I’ll probably spend the rest of the week editing (Aggghhh) what I wrote last week and hopefully get those babies subbed.

Hmmm, then do I go back to the stuff I should be working on, or write the sequels? Decisions…decisions…

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