I’ve got two ideas to end my second novel. It could end with Isabel taking off an an adventure of a lifetime and end with a wedding. I’ve looked at this novel in two, very distinct and separate halves of a whole. It’s one story but I could end it where I am now then write about the adventure as a whole different story. I have started on the second half, and while I have the characters down, I need to work on my setting and placement of the story. I know enough to develop characters and scenarios but not enough to make it all feel real and authentic. So… I’ve left that alone for a while. I started working on the last scene– an epilogue actually– told from Andrew’s point of view. I like what I see in my head, but there are still unanswered questions as to how they all get to this point. Those questions would be the next story– or part two of a rather lengthy story. Just wondering what I should write.
I know with all of my characters being related, I have a whole series of stories, so I could write the second half of Isabel’s story as another novel. I’ve already got Andrew talking to me telling me things that he wants me to write but bringing something to an end would be fabulous right about now.
So, setting that aside for a bit, I’m looking at my first novel, with Lena pondering doing the same thing. She is left in a will by her dear friend a large sum of money with instructions to spend all of it. Well, she can do whatever the hell she wants with it, but she’s thinking of taking her young daughter and traveling. Up until this point, she’s unhappy, feels that moving back to New Mexico was the wrong thing to do. She and her daughter are miserable. She knows she’s running away from things back in NYC but she doesn’t want to deal with those things or the person she was running away from.
In an orignial draft, I had her moving to Spain for a year with her daughter and best friend. He was going to meet a nice handsome tennis player, fall in love, and stay there, as gay marriage is legal in Spain, at least civilly. Then he was going to give her the keys to the apartment in the Village and tell her to go back to New York. That was where she was happiest. I still like that idea… even about the part where she and the ex-boyfriend come to an awkward, but natural reunion. However, I don’t think I want to write about the move to Spain or the traveling part as it is quite similar to the other story, where it’s vital to the story. I also don’t want the last scene of this book to end at the airport too as it could with her leaving on her grand adventure with her daughter. So, I’m rethinking my ending.
Of course, right now, anyone reading this has no idea what I’m talking about.
