https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/ Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:33:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/#comment-20907 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:33:57 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12080#comment-20907 Oddly enough, yes, I do. I don’t always know the details, but I tend to know where my characters are going to be development-wise and I know if it’ll be a happy ending or a bittersweet ending just by my own gut feeling.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/#comment-20609 Fri, 15 Aug 2014 05:39:43 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12080#comment-20609 Actually, no and that fact still startles me a bit. That cliche about the characters taking over? That’s pretty much what happens in my case, almost every time.

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/#comment-20487 Mon, 11 Aug 2014 23:39:04 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12080#comment-20487 Absolutely not a clue. It’ll end where it ends, and it’ll surprise me. Heck, I’m not even sure what the next scene will be…

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/#comment-20424 Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:12:40 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12080#comment-20424 I usually have one or two scenes clear in my head when I start, but the beginning and the ending change many times!

]]> https://booksbywomen.org/know-novel-will-end-start-writing/#comment-20257 Mon, 04 Aug 2014 08:53:54 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12080#comment-20257 Yes, I have the last scene crystal clear. That’s certainly the case in the book I’m writing now, The Milliner’s Secret. The final scene is the pole star towards which I steer the ship. Without it, I would be going round and round in large circles forever. The end of the book is pretty much all I work out to start with, books being formed from loose-knit treatments which change as I write.

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