From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 12/19/18 7:07 AM, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   > On 19.12.18, Brian P.   wrote:   
   >> On December 18, 2018 A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   >>> On 18.12.18, Brian Pickrell   wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> [...]   
   >>>   
   >>>> So, you've decided to join me in thinking out loud in this forum?   
   >>>   
   >>> Yup. :)   
   >>>   
   >>>> Your immediate question is how to fill in 15 formative years in the   
   >>>> lives of the kids...   
   >   
   >   
   >> I'm still not quite clear on what the meaning of "stuck" is for   
   >> you...in other words, what would have to happen before you can call   
   >> it done and be happy with it?   
   >   
   > The book being finished, at least.   
   >   
   > Mind, I'd not mind adding to the story, but once I got 3 books with   
   > around 200k words each (can't have the third be less, would feel wrong)   
   > and an end I see as end, I call it, well, "that's the end of the   
   > trilogy".   
      
      
   	I think that a book's length is its length. I believe that in two of my   
   trilogies the third book was shorter than either of its predecessors.   
   Try not to get chained to the word count.   
      
   	That said, if both of the predecessors were 200k (!), readers would   
   probably expect at least a full-size novel (100k) to finish it off.   
      
      
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