Just a Check In

I think I am in the home stretch of a nice looking draft of my novel. I am delighted. I had this idea that I would spend the penultimate chapter of the book writing monologues from all of the major characters, speaking to Chaurisse. Then the end will be Chaurisse's chapter deciding what it all means.

The monologues have been fun to write. I would have thought it would be hard getting all those different voices, but writing the spoken voice of the characters is so much easier than writing thier interior voices. I think it's because i have about 350 pages of the ways that these characters present themselves to other people. So I know what Raliegh would SAY to Chaurisse. How he explains it in his own head, I am not so sure. What details in a room he would notice, I am not so sure.

I hope these monologues make it by an editor. They are an add twist at the end of the book, but I think I can make them work.

I actually see the end of this book coming. It has been a long road.