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- From: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Sequels (was Re: Work in progress)
- Message-ID: <14433@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:34:23 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- I'm not a big fan of sequels either, though I had fun turning Empire of Time
- into a 3-book series. There also, each book had a very different agenda. (Maybe
- that explains why the series didn't do very well, alas...) From the writer's
- point of view, a series gives you room to explore the implications of a
- setting, a group of characters, a theme of some kind. It may seem odd to those
- who haven't completed their first novel yet (and feel daunted by the perceived
- *size* of such a writing project), but a single novel of 100,000 words or so
- isn't really very long. Really.
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