Thoughts On a Serial Story?
10 years ago
General
I've been posting the first few parts of a story to FA and DA. The story is already well over 15K words, far more complex than originally planned. I'd like to try selling it on Amazon, probably as a 99-cent story. Wouldn't I be messing up my sales efforts by posting the rest of it here, even as a rough draft?
If you would like to follow what I've written so far, the TSA-Talk mailing list has more of it and I'm continuing to post there.
Also tempted to write another chapter or two that don't fit into the main story, but that's to worry about later. (In the draft I have a pony character, but I'm writing him out of the piece for now. He could show up in a chapter where the heroine goes to visit his world, but for copyright reasons and marketing I don't think that part of the tale belongs with the rest. The other thing I don't plan to expand on in this piece is an offhand mention of "clerical magic", which has some troubling implications. I imagine a chapter with Alma waking up one day and going, "Wait a minute, clerical magic? What is that?" and carrying on from there. As the story stands, I opened a can of worms in chapter 4 ("Why don't we upload the mentally disabled people?") and don't know how that's going to get resolved.
If you would like to follow what I've written so far, the TSA-Talk mailing list has more of it and I'm continuing to post there.
Also tempted to write another chapter or two that don't fit into the main story, but that's to worry about later. (In the draft I have a pony character, but I'm writing him out of the piece for now. He could show up in a chapter where the heroine goes to visit his world, but for copyright reasons and marketing I don't think that part of the tale belongs with the rest. The other thing I don't plan to expand on in this piece is an offhand mention of "clerical magic", which has some troubling implications. I imagine a chapter with Alma waking up one day and going, "Wait a minute, clerical magic? What is that?" and carrying on from there. As the story stands, I opened a can of worms in chapter 4 ("Why don't we upload the mentally disabled people?") and don't know how that's going to get resolved.
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Don't mind me over here, just had to vent my thought on the subject, even if I'm grossly overthinking it. Sorry I can't be more helpful on the actual point of the post, as I really wish I could just buy the full thing, but it's just not in the cards.
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