Notes on Blooms

For those who may not recall, Blooms is the sequel to A Line through the Desert. We've worked on Blooms on and off for two years now; mostly off for the last six months or so. Well we're going through Blooms for the final edit before the intrepid Debbie gets it.

Here are some thoughts:

-We feel there are gaps in the narrative, or at least interesting things about Jake and Patricia that we have not yet written.
-We don't know if we should write them.
-The text feels smoothed out and edited, which is not to say we aren't making corrections.
-We've never really written a novel like this, which is more or less about a couple married and still in love after 20 years.
-We like the side characters a lot.
-Yes the reader will know where things are headed but that doesn't mean the characters do.
-We don't really have an ending.
-We don't really know how Blooms ends.

We need to explore the physical space of the  novel.