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Originally Posted by Rizla
How long did the last one take?
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As I said, it depends on how you measure it. If the last book was part of the original idea (and, in at least some part, I think it was) then if the idea was in 1990 and the last book was published in 2007 that's 17 years. If you just measure the final writing and publishing time then it's somewhere around 2 years (working off the publication dates).
All series, even ones that are less of a single story arc than the Harry Potter books, are really difficult to measure because every book along the way lends something to the work that comes after. And I intend this from a writing perspective, not just a reader's perspective. The story keeps refining as it is being written (at least that's the way it works for me), so that writing the earlier books really is part of being able to write the later books.