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Hello! Thank you for sharing your ideas on what to write. What's the idea length for a bonus epilogue, especially if you had a relatively long novel (about 85k) that already had an epilogue? Thank you!

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I've never thought about length, actually. For me, it's just the idea and then execution. I don't believe length matters. My BEs most often end up between 1000-5000 words, no matter the length of the novel.

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That sounds good. I'm so wordy but that range sounds doable. Thank you so much!

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I had a book with the major couple and a minor couple. I killed off the guy of the minor couple, and I got a lot of hate mail. I felt so bad (he was a great guy! And he gave his life to save everyone else!) that I eventually wrote a bonus epilogue where he didn't die, but had to go into witness protection and is now in a wheelchair, and he decides to reveal himself to the girl, and will she still love him after thinking he's dead for a year...?

Now I need to write a book about a guy in a wheelchair, and I think I'm in over my head! 😆

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Now that's a reveal! Love it!

Oooh, I adore interabled couples. You can do so much fun stuff with wheelchairs and taking any part of the body out of the spice equation makes for novel and interesting sex scenes. When I researched my one wheelchair hero novel back in 2018 or 2019, I gobbled up all the YouTube content from interabled couples. I bet there's even more useful stuff out there now. Rooting for you!

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