Silver Rose: I also have a
very strong dislike for Jacob. But I still love Renesmee. The only thing I'm torn on when it comes to BD is Jacob imprinting. I was like are you kidding me?! He imprints on Bella's daughter?! I don't know if you've been to SM's website but on there she has a
FAQ for BD & talks about how/when she came up with the idea of Renesmee. (It's about halfway down.)
And what I get from reading it is that she always had the idea of Renesmee. She was
always going to be a part of the story. And that kind of helped me a little w/the imprinting situation. I love the fact that even though they never thought it was possible Bella & Edward were able to have a child. And that Bella's outlook on having a child & being a mother changed. (Maybe part of my opinion is based on the fact that SM is a Mormon & so am I & I know how important family, and having children is in our religion. Family is #1. And so it kind of doesn't suprise me.) Soo.....yeah.
EDIT: She also talks about it when she did a tour for BD & There was a
Q & A in ChicagoElectra: Question #1 comes from Tori. Tori wants to know, was the final version of Breaking Dawn how you originally planned it or were there other plot lines you created and this was just the one that made the cut?
S: “I have known the ending of this series since about October, 2003. So it’s actually been a long time coming. The rough draft of Breaking Dawn, which you guys know is Forever Dawn, I was finished around February of 2004 and I really stuck to the original plan because once I got there, it seemed like the only possible ending. So really there weren’t other plotlines that I was choosing from, this was always the way it was meant to happen.”
Electra: Now how long have you had Renesme in your mind? Jacqueline _____ says Bella getting pregnant just threw her for a loop. I loved it, don’t get me wrong, I still had the ‘what?’ (reading from Jacqueline’s question)
S: Um, actually, Nessie was one of the reasons that Breaking Dawn exists. When I first started working with an editor, I had Twilight and I showed them what I was working on for Forever Dawn and they said ‘you know, we’d really like to keep Bella in high school for a little bit longer, develop that more, keep it more YA.’ And I said ‘Ok, there are some interesting stories to do in there. I first started working on it and they said ‘we’d just really just like it to be three books, and end with Eclipse. Can you make an ending that you’re happy with?’ And I said ‘no, I can’t make an ending that I’m happy with.’ This was a very hard fought battle and I was fighting for Nessie the whole time. She was a character that I was not going to allow her to be destroyed. She had to exist. So, she was in my Forever Dawn.