Comments on: The Bittersweet End (Almost) http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/ Action packed paranormal romance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:11:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rosie http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-154 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:49:20 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-154 I admit I cruise by and see how the work is going and if you met goal for the day. I’m always amazed and in awe of the discipline it takes to write. Good for you!

You talking about ending the writing process is how I feel when I finish reading a really good book. You just don’t want it to be over.

]]> By: seanachi http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-153 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:17:15 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-153 You’ve created these AMAZING and complex characters and given them such a rich history and emotional relationship–their obstacles are high and difficult and yet THEY WILL OVERCOME for the HEA. I don’t think anyone–reader OR character–can ask for more than that. You do them all proud.

]]> By: Susan B. http://kaitnolan.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-152 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:10:01 +0000 http://seanachi.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/the-bittersweet-end-almost/#comment-152 [bounces]

I’ve started to think about the end a lot too. Not about what happens- which would actually be helpful- but just about finishing. I definitely have finishing anxiety about a lot of things in my life, so it’s a big deal. I think that’s why even when I have ideas about what’s coming next, I only ever write the one scene at a time that I’ve committed to. It’s sort of the maximum amount of foot-dragging I’m allowed at this point.

For me, it’s much more a scared thing than a bittersweet thing. After all, all I want for Matt and Alex is for them to live happily ever after, and my goal since I sat down was to overcome all the obstacles I’d put between them and get them there so that they could be together forever. You know that I don’t have that thing with my kid where I long for her to stay a baby forever; I want her to develop and live through the stages of her life. (Part of me wants just wants to see what comes next.) In the same way, I don’t feel any need to cling to Alex and Matt and have them stay in the storytime forever. I want this stuff done for them so that they can live out their lives beyond the pages.

So for me it’s more a feeling that I could mess that up for them somehow. It comes back to a perfectionist problem I have that once I say “this is done” it’s finished and set in stone and ready to be pronouced “not good enough” by anyone who lays eyes on it. And the dumb idea I have that writing The End means that it’s over–well, I guess it makes me nervous that I’m not going to give them as good a story as they deserve.

But that’s me all over, isn’t it?

Pot.

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