11-24-2003, 12:24 PM
It defies our nature, which is to do things as completely unrelated events, and so it is hard. It is as difficult as being forced to confront the interaction of you rnumerous events in life, the results of your choices being shown in crystal clarity how they were not isolated events.
It takes a great effort to do an ongoing series, and often it stems from an author's desire to externalize some of their own emotions and conflicts, which is what allows it to continue, but it is difficult to complete for two reasons. The first, related to the conflict reasoning, is that the conflict does not end, and so the series cannot end. The other, more common, reason is that an ending for the series was never planned, and they don't want to seem to be making a contrived ending just to finish the series.
Keep at it and plug away, and plan a conclusion for your story before you get to the point of saying "Oh, shit, I need to write the ending now, what can I do?"
It takes a great effort to do an ongoing series, and often it stems from an author's desire to externalize some of their own emotions and conflicts, which is what allows it to continue, but it is difficult to complete for two reasons. The first, related to the conflict reasoning, is that the conflict does not end, and so the series cannot end. The other, more common, reason is that an ending for the series was never planned, and they don't want to seem to be making a contrived ending just to finish the series.
Keep at it and plug away, and plan a conclusion for your story before you get to the point of saying "Oh, shit, I need to write the ending now, what can I do?"