Coming to the End.

It's been a long road so far, but I'm coming up on the last few chapters of CHERUBIM. The ending has taken a turn I really wasn't expecting, but for the most part it's all falling into place how I want it. The fun part is going to come after the first draft is all written out and I get to go back and start tinkering with things here and there while I go through the editing and revision phase.

There are quite a few things I'm going to have to go back and touch up once I'm done here. Most of which have to do with the fact that developments later in the book, that I wasn't aware of or didn't think of when I started writing, have to be matched up with previous chapters so that everything is going to be nice and cohesive. I have a few notes to work off of, and a few things I want to clarify here and there as well.

Part of my writing process usually involves writing out a chapter, and then sometime later while I'm doing other things, adaptations and revisions will often pop into my head sometimes days after i wrote the original. A lot of times these are little bits of conversation, or details that I then have to make sure I go back and add into things.

Last night for example, after i finished up the chapter I was working on and headed off to work, I started thinking about how everything in the story was going to effect certain characters in the long run. Add that with there are a few shattered preconceptions certain characters had about others and a few ideas hit me. But since I wasn't at home, I had to jot them down as little notes that I could use later on when I was home.

If the events in this book are going to have a lasting effect on the characters, which, if I want character growth long term they have to, I figured I would need something that could serve as a callback to previous book int he future. Something that can bring back a memory and evoke some emotion later on down the road.

That's the plan anyways. It's going to take a little bit more tinkering to fit my idea in with the rest of what's already written, but even though it's probably going to be somewhat time consuming, it is a relatively minor and innocuous change. One that will hopefully have some payout in the future.

I'll have to wait and see for that though. I think it'll turn out nicely, and CHERUBIM already has some future threads being spun out there anyways. Lots of things to work with.

Two, maybe three more chapters to go and I should be good to go.