Gryphon wrote:

For most series, it's simple order.

For UF, it's a slightly trickier game that goes something like this:

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For example, the first piece of Symphony of the Sword to be completed was actually Interlude at Bancroft Tower in D Minor, but it's set in March of 2405, three months after Wounded Rose ends, and depends heavily on character interactions to be set up in Wounded Rose and Christmas Rose - so it has to wait until they're both out before it can be released.

Does this ever cause problems for you because of characters not doing what you planned for them to do (like you mentioned in the An Encounter at Shamrock House metametafic (the only link to that I can find is on the 'What's New' page, by the by; it should have a link under NXE, from the looks of it, but I can't find it there...))? Do you wind up with a fic that was ready to go but, all of a sudden, you have to edit or junk large chunks? Even worse, have you ever posted a fic, then gone to finish a chronologically prior story arc and not been able to get the ducks in a row? Inquiring minds wanna know.