Writing Online Serial Novels the Right Way

David
David
Sep 8, 2018 · 4 min read

Nowadays, numerous authors have tried to be revolutionary and get their readers’ interests by offering their novels online totally free, chapter by chapter, in hopes it will make people ultimately get their books. Some of these efforts have succeeded more than some others, but the most successful have been those where the author thought out his or her story and wrote it in its entirety prior to starting to publish it.

Too many new authors decide to write a account in a serial manner by simply writing the first chapter and even posting it, then writing the second chapter and placing it, and so on. These authors may have some idea of where story is going and how it will end, but from day to day, they can not know how they are going to get to that end. I have viewed websites where authors write a hundred chapters that go walking aimlessly about before the conclusion finally occurs. I’ve attempted to read some of these serials, only to give up after a few chapters because the writing was poor and the plot seemed to don’t have any direction. Most of these, I think, were first drafts that were shared without much thought going into them, although the rare exception can exist.

“That’s how Dickens did it! “ these experts will proclaim about their serial offerings, trying to equate most of their efforts with a master novelist. Yes, Dickens did submit his novels as serials and he was a great copy writer, but even Dickens often planned his books in advance, and if you look at Dickens’ earliest efforts, we were holding not as good as his later works. His initial serial work, “The Pickwick Papers, “ can rarely be considered a novel. It’s more like a series of episodic stories in which in the end loosely come together when he decided to quit writing typically the serial. Similarly, his early serialized novel “Nicholas Nickleby” has a tendency to wander about in places. Later, Dickens’ plots became tighter as he became better at precisely what he did.

Online publishing requires the strongest publishing because people have short attention spans online-they tend to read rather than read, and most would prefer to read a paper arrange or a book on their e-book reader rather than stare at a internet site for hours, so if the writing is not of the first-rate, obtaining the reader’s attention, much less getting him or her to keep coming back to your internet site, is not likely to happen.

The truth is that many authors who plan to write online serials are doing so to build interest in their valuable books and to find out whether an audience exists that could make it worthwhile for them to spend the money to publish a e book. Sadly, many of these authors do not think through writing a full new before they try to find readers. They are expecting to find supporters and receive accolades before they have put in the work for you to deserve them. These beginning authors would be more successful whenever they concentrated on creating a cohesive storyline and writing your entire book before they consider how to promote it online being a serial.

The problem with serial writing is that once you publish a chapter, you can’t go back and rewrite it-well, you can, but your readers who have already read the earlier version aren’t very likely to go back to read it, or put up with you telling these people, “I know in Chapter 12 I killed off of Joe, but now that I’m in Chapter 23, We’ve changed my mind, so I went back and rewrote that phase so he can appear in this one. “ If authors can hold off publishing their chapters until they’ve written together with polished the entire book, they won’t need to worry about inconsistencies if they publish the story online. And their readers will find the story better and more enticing, so they will be more likely to keep coming back to look over successive chapters.

As harsh as it may sound, there is a wide range of dribble being written on the Internet, and people don’t want to spend their time reading second-rate books when they could understand first-rate books. Nor would someone want to keep tuning in daily or weekly for a story that isn’t creatively written. By putting in the time to revise and strengthen the story ahead of publishing it, you can have a successful serial novel, and if it will require you an extra year to get to that point, it will be well worth it.

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