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MetaFour
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(Old Master)
20th Sep, 2017 02:28:05 PM
So a writer plans for a series (not just book series) to be of a certain number of installments. The first book is considered enjoyable enough to get the audience to read on. Then somewhere down the line, usually half way through the planned number of installments, the content of each new installment contains less and less plot, as if the writer had no idea what to do with the hundreds of available pages and opted to just stretch out the plot as much as possible to justify having that many books in the series.
Examples:
The Pendragon Adventure: The author planned for 10 books, one for each territory in the PA universe. The first seven books were written well enough, but then the last three began stretching out what little plot there was to tell, to the point where many fans thought they were boring.
The Secrets Of The Immortal Nicholas Flamel: A six book series. Though every book was admittedly slow paced, there was a lot going on in the first three books. The last three books had very little to tell, with the fifth book being considered almost filler, giving the impression that the writer could have just combined them into two books and have enough room for properly developing the finale.
Edited by Namor21