Your Future As A Writer May Be In Online Serial Publishing

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Sadly fewer people than ever are buying and reading books. As an author of over 20 traditionally published books, this is painful for me to say, yet it is true.

Here is a list of some of my books:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B001H6W6Y4

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Even when I go to Book Expo at NY’s Javitt’s Center, the event has been getting smaller every year.

Fewer:

• Publishers,
• Agents,
• Media,

More

• Writers looking to get published,
• Editors looking for freelance work

It is not a pretty thing to observe. There is a quiet desperation in the halls.

The future of writing and reading fiction seems to be in serialization.

Here is a video about this trend…

Here are the basics for creating a serial novel

1.??? Every book needs a story arc that is completed in that book, so there is an element of satisfaction for the reader.

2.??? In a serialized book with short installments, it could be a small thing: one goal on the way?to?a quest, one change in a relationship, one element of personal growth, an important discovery, etc. The big story arcs will not be resolved in that book, but something should be.

3.??? If it is a full-length?book, then each book needs at least one major story arc, worthy of a novel, that plays out between the covers, while the bigger multi-book arcs are also developing. If you can have more than one story arc that resolves in that volume, even better. There are two creations existing side by side, interwoven: "complete book" and "a piece of a greater whole". You have?to?address both.

4.??? A reader should not feel like all they got was a cliffhanger. For this reason, if you are trying?to?break up a big story into short pieces, look for natural "endings"—emotionally climactic moments followed by a significant event or change. Each novel needs at least one.

Where to publish. There are many platforms. I post from my game theory novel “The Chronicals of A Noble Fixer” ?at Substack.com every Wednesday

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