As Time Goes By

How do you handle the passage of time and the aging of characters in your series (if you don't write a series, speak to this in terms of your preference as a reader)? Are your characters living in a short span of time while many years pass in our world? Does time pass at roughly the same pace as the publication of each book? Or do you have a different method?

From Frank

I write a number of different series ("gritty crime fiction from both sides of the badge," after all!) but I tend to handle the p...