About a Fourth

Remember last week when I mentioned that a lot of whether or not I would be able to write a fourth/fifth depended greatly on the third book. It occurred to me that I neglected to mention that it also greatly depends on my desire to write a fourth. See while it does very much depend on the third book, a lot of whether or not I decide to continue and make this into a series, rather than just a trilogy, actually depends on how far I want to take this book. A lot of people would think that I would want to continue it as far as I can, but having spent as much time with the story and characters as I have, I'm pretty sure that by the end of three books I will have taken the story and the characters as far as I can or as much as I need too. It's complicated mostly because I only have one and a half books written. I know where things will go and how they will end up, but I don't really know the heart of the last two books because I haven't written them. Even knowing the major plot points I don't have the minor details down and so there's a lot that could happen between plot points that could drastically change the outcome of whether or not I decide to continue on with a fourth or fifth book.