From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 12/22/18 6:21 AM, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   > On 21.12.18, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   wrote:   
   >> On 12/19/18 7:07 AM, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   >>> On 19.12.18, Brian P.   wrote:   
   >   
   >>>> 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.   
   >   
   > Sounds reasonable to suggest that. It's just that I'd feel bugged if it   
   > were a bigger difference than, say, 30% less.   
   >   
      
      
   	I can understand that.   
      
   	Is there a secondary or not-quite-protagonist character who has enough   
   importance to the plot that THEIR story could be added into the mix?   
   That's how I got my superhero novel _Legend_ to a reasonable novel   
   length; a character who was important but had been sidelined got her own   
   chapters, and that brought the length well up.   
      
      
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