I posted this as an answer about series writing over on sfnov​el​ists​.com, but I wanted to post it here as well, so it would be, among other things, easier for me to find.   I currently have two worlds in progress, and they’re very struc­turally different. The first, the DAW books I write as Michelle West, aren’t really self-contained, and they’re certainly not short. I started those in 1994, and have continued to write them, and for me? They’re not finished yet. They don’t have an ending. I had envi­sioned a number of ending arcs, emotion­ally, for a large cast of char­ac­ters– but I am only approaching the end of one of many char­acter arcs in the newest set of books; the end of the six book … Continue reading →