Hello! I just joined a little bit ago.
So, I have a few questions. Hope this is the right place to post this.
Quick background: I've been working on an original fantasy novel, the first book in a trilogy, since 2005, and it's VERY close to being done. I have a chapter to finish, and then...well, it depends. Either this chapter that I finish could be the very last chapter, or I could write an epilogue. If I write an epilogue, it would involve the main character being an older woman, all ready married to her fianc'e (I'd probably skip the wedding scene- not quite sure about this yet). The story is told in first person as a sort of memoir, and my plan is to have the journal the MC is writing in be the one that her fianc'e gives her in the story, so I would probably indicate this somewhere in the epilogue, or maybe in the last chapter.
-Should I go with the idea of having it end with the MC as an older woman, perhaps pregnant with her first child, in the epilogue?
-Would readers be confused if I only told them that the MC and her fianc'e are married at the end and didn't actually have a scene with a wedding?
-What's the "classic" way to go when it comes to narrators of a trilogy and the first book is told in first person? Or even if it's not in first person. Do authors tend to have the second book be about the first narrator's daughter, and then their granddaughter in the third, or do they go another route? I've only read one trilogy where it's been one character, then their daughter in the next book, and then the first character's umm...technically it's her half-brother's daughter, so her niece. (It was The Sevenwaters Trilogy by Juliet Marillier, in case anyone's read it before- very good trilogy!)
-Another question concerning book two. Would it possibly confuse readers if I have the prologue of book two be from the view point of the MC from book one, but not have the MC of book two in it? My idea (and only idea for book two at the moment) is to have the MC from book one be at a council meeting, and be rather bored by the debates that are going on. This wouldn't have anything to do directly with the MC of book two, though. I think that this scene would probably take place at the same time as the first scene/chapter/whatever ends up happening in book two. Alternatively I could have this scene be from the MC of book one's view and then go to a new scene and have that one be from the MC of book two's view. But what this would mean is changing it from third person to first person. o_O
-If book one is written in first person, should books two and three also be in first person since it's part of a trilogy?
I think that's it. -Hopefully- I didn't confuse anyone. ^_^ Thanks to anyone who helps answer these questions in advance!
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