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Originally Posted by crich70
That makes sense. After going through all the work of creating the world in which a story is set why not use it for more than one story rather than having to recreate everything from scratch every time.
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That's a perfectly logical way to look at it. Actually, though, it's not nearly so calculated. Mostly, it's just that I think of new stories spinning off from something I wrote in an earlier book. The dragon books, for example, were suggested to me by a single throwaway line I'd put in Star Rigger's Way--a rigger in a space bar boasting about "dueling dragons on the Aeregian route." That line came back to me when I was thinking of writing a story for an Orson Scott Card anthology about dragons. And the short story suggested the first novel. Which in turn suggested the second novel.