How do you handle multiple Epilogue chapters?

[TimothyEllis]

I've just finished the writing on my next novel, and ended up with 2 epilogues.

So at the moment it looks like this:

Chapter Forty Eight
Epilogue
Epilogue

The reason for 2 is that there are 2 separate pairs of people making afterthought comments in 3rd person in a 1st person story, where the second are talking about the first.

I don't use * * * at all.

Should I number the 2 epilogues? Is that already the way it is? Is there a convention on how this is done?

[alhawke]

Number them?:
Epilogue I
Epilogue II

??

[Post-Doctorate D]

Is there a convention on how this is done?

The * * * that you don't use?

[TimothyEllis]

Is there a convention on how this is done?

The * * * that you don't use?

I prefer to just change chapters when you need one of them.

[Post-Doctorate D]

Is there a convention on how this is done?

The * * * that you don't use?

I prefer to just change chapters when you need one of them.

Which means you've now painted yourself in a corner . . .

[TimothyEllis]

Is there a convention on how this is done?

The * * * that you don't use?

I prefer to just change chapters when you need one of them.

Which means you've now painted yourself in a corner . . .

More like painted myself out the back door.

[Lynn]

I never use prologue and epilogue so I get what you mean. :D We all have our lines.

For me, it would just be another chapter.

For you, I'd just do what alhawke suggests, number them. Roman numerals look better for that. So Epilogue I, Epilogue II.  You could also do Epilogue, Epilogue II.

Looks nice. (To me.) So I'd say do that.