Did it ever occur to Jacob that....

I don't think he was too keen on imprinting because he believed he truly was in love with Bella. And that's why imprinting on Renesmee kind of made sense.

The movie left it out, but in the book ... In the scene where Jacob is coming up the stairs and sees that Edward can hear the baby, and decides he (Edward) wants the baby too ... Edward can read Jacob's mind and knows Jacob needs to get away, so he tosses Jacob a set of car keys, and Jacob takes off ... just driving to no where. He stops at a town and tries to imprint on someone, anyone, in order to end the pain he was feeling at the potential death of Bella. So, he did change his mind about imprinting on someone. Which doesn't mean he wasn't in love with Bella. He was. Even SM's website states that.


http://stepheniemeyer.com/the-books/twilight/twilight-faq/#forever

http://stepheniemeyer.com/the-books/new-moon/new-moon-the-story/

http://stepheniemeyer.com/the-books/breaking-dawn/frequently-asked-questions-breaking-dawn/#foreverdawn

How different is Breaking Dawn from Forever Dawn? What changed, what stayed the same, and why? Will you ever post extras from Forever Dawn?

The basic story is the same. Bella and Edward get married and go to Isle Esme for their honeymoon. Bella gets pregnant with Renesmee. The birth just about kills Bella, but Edward makes her a vampire in time. Jacob imprints on Renesmee. Alice has a vision of the Volturi coming to destroy the Cullens with the “immortal child” as their excuse. Alice bails. Bella’s shielding abilities turn the tide in the Cullen’s favor, along with Alice bringing home another half-vampire to prove that Nessie isn’t a danger.

The things that are different:


*** Jacob and Bella are not nearly so close. None of the events of New Moon or Eclipse exist; Edward never leaves, so Bella and Jacob never bond. Jacob’s feelings for Bella remain at crush level.
*** Due in part to Jacob being a smaller character, the werewolf pack is only sketchily developed. It exists as a whole, but there isn’t much information about the individuals. Most of the wolves do not have names.
*** The entire story is written in Bella’s perspective. Because of this, there is a lot more emphasis on the pregnancy phase.
*** Jacob isn’t there at the delivery, naturally, so he imprints on Renesmee a few weeks later when Bella is visiting Charlie.
*** With no New Moon or Eclipse, Victoria and Laurent are both still alive. Laurent stays happily with Irina and sides with the Cullens in the confrontation with the Volturi. It is Victoria rather than Irina who informs on the Cullens to the Volturi. She creates a new friend, Riley, to make the actual accusation. She doesn’t want Aro to know about her agenda—or the fact that the baby is only half-vampire, of which she is aware.
*** The wolves kill Victoria. She is the only casualty at the final confrontation.
*** The last chapter ends the same way, but there is an epilogue. It involves Max (J. Jenk’s assistant). Bella’s initial interaction with him is a little bit longer and, feeling she owes him a favor, she gives him her number and tells him she will help him out in return if he ever needs a favor of his own. Max gets himself into some trouble, and Bella gets to play Superman.


I may post some extras someday if I ever have time to go back through the Forever Dawn manuscript—it’s just as long as Breaking Dawn. There are a couple of things that family members told me they particularly missed, so I would start there.

http://stepheniemeyer.com/2009/11/new-moon-qa-with-stephenie/

While writing the books, were you ever unsure of whether Bella would choose Edward or Jacob, or did you always know she would end up with Edward in the end? – Samantha V.

I wrote New Moon and Eclipse after I wrote Forever Dawn, which is pretty much the rough draft of Breaking Dawn. So I always knew Bella’s destiny was with Edward, and as her relationship with Jacob evolved and deepened through the course of the middle novels, writing about it was sometimes painful. Even knowing Jacob’s eventual happy ending, it was hard to put him through all the heartbreak. I do know what would have happened if Bella hadn’t jumped off the cliff that day, but I always knew that was a could-have-been that wasn’t the right way to go.

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