This is the end, Hold your breath, And
count to ten
(Lyrics to Skyfall by Adele)
(Lyrics to Skyfall by Adele)
Today I wrote The End of my romantic suspense novella ‘Voodoo
Wedding’ which is the sequel to ‘How Do You Voodoo?’ - Yay!
But of course, it’s not The End really because despite editing
as I write, I do know the manuscript needs a bit of a polish and I still need
to smooth over a few tiny plot holes. Then I’ll transfer the manuscript to my
Kindle for reading it as a reader rather than a writer and I’ll go back and
polish it some more. Next week, I’ll send it off to my trusted Editor for a
story critique and I’ll take on board her thoughts, and if I agree (she’s
very wise and clever so I usually do – and she has an uncanny knack of telling
what I suspected all along) I’ll work on it some more. Then it will be edited again for grammar, spelling mistakes,
silly typos, layout inconsistencies, etc - and then, finally, it will be The
End!
I thought you might enjoy these quotes on writing The End:
Frank Herbert
“Bilbo – have you
thought of an ending?
Frodo – Yes,
several, and all are dark and unpleasant."
Rose Tremain
“In the
planning stage of a book, I don’t plan the ending. It has to be earned by all
that will go before it.”
John Geddes
“My novels are
like life – I never know where they are going until the end.”
And my
personal favourite:
“Now is not
the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of
the beginning.”
