Finishing the last book of a trilogy feels a bit like it must feel to wrap a movie. All the threads that started in ALL the books need to wind up, and the character issues need to pay off. It's my plan that this third book (Airs of Night and Sea) will really be the end of the trilogy, so I don't want to leave plot issues unresolved or big questions unanswered. It makes me envy George R. R. Martin just a teensy bit . . . so much more room to make everything work out.
And what a surprise, when I thought I was almost done, to find that the ending I had planned just didn't feel right. I couldn't make it work with the character I had committed to, with the plot as it unfolded, with a slightly left-over issue . . . so I have to write one more chapter and insert it before the end.
Thank goodness for the Redmond Riters and their sage advice! I'd hate to have to handle this without collegial input. If any of the Bloglet readers have advice, I'm open to that, too!
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