The End is Near?

[MrPixel]

A story line I've been writing for the past 30 months surprised me last night - I very well may be writing the concluding chapter, and it's HEA, of course. I love these characters and their antics, but they wrote themselves into a huge life transition, and maybe it's time to let them go live this new life without interference from me. Concern I have is the mourning from the separation from these "friends", and also that development after here is inevitably going to result in the loss of key characters at one point or another in their personal growth. It would be impossible for over a dozen "main characters" to grow old together; somebody or several somebodies will have to divorce out of the polycule. I don't know if I can bear to write that.

I can certainly peek into their doings from time to time, but things are getting complicated for them. At the moment my feeling is "This is my novel, I guess." I'm not all that certain I have another one in me.