I think there's a great deal to be said for writing an epic series that's explicitly divided into smaller units. The larger arc is a world-spanning metaplot, but the way you tell that story is by doing a trilogy about this part, and then a trilogy about that part, and so on. Very few writers hit the Jordan/Martin/etc lottery, where the publisher will just sign on for however many books it's going to take, and sales are good enough to support that. Working in smaller units like trilogies means that even if you only get through twelve books of your planned eighteen-book epic, you've still delivered satisfying moments of completion to your readers.
And yes, sparklings have six legs and two wings, for a total of eight limbs. (But ignore the bit where it says "actual size" -- the image was supposed to be shrunk down for printing, and it wasn't.)
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Date: 2013-02-27 09:36 pm (UTC)And yes, sparklings have six legs and two wings, for a total of eight limbs. (But ignore the bit where it says "actual size" -- the image was supposed to be shrunk down for printing, and it wasn't.)