So good in so many ways! I started a serial this year as well. I have been writing it chapter by chapter and publishing it on a password protected page on my website as I go. I publish the password in my newsletter. I found it really difficult to keep up with. Even though I wrote the first draft of a new book over the summer, for some reason, I haven't found a good rhythm with the serial. Someone asked for the status of the project yesterday and I thought maybe I should just sit down and finish the whole thing. And maybe that's how I should have approached the project to begin with but you only learn by trying. Thank you for your transparency. It really helped give me some perspective knowing I'm not the only one!
That means a lot to me, Susan! I had finished the serial before I published chapter 1, which really took the pressure off. I’d love to write more fiction, but it does seem much easier to punch out an article instead. 😅
Thanks for being transparent here, and for including a link to your full story! I fall into the category that didn't read the serialization week to week but look forward to reading it in one sitting :-)
Thank you, Meredith! There have been a couple of serials on Substack that I started reading and then, when I got busy and missed an installment or two, I never finished, and I think that’s one of the “hard” things about a digital serial. Back in the days of newspapers and magazines, you could at least keep the hard copies handy.
So good in so many ways! I started a serial this year as well. I have been writing it chapter by chapter and publishing it on a password protected page on my website as I go. I publish the password in my newsletter. I found it really difficult to keep up with. Even though I wrote the first draft of a new book over the summer, for some reason, I haven't found a good rhythm with the serial. Someone asked for the status of the project yesterday and I thought maybe I should just sit down and finish the whole thing. And maybe that's how I should have approached the project to begin with but you only learn by trying. Thank you for your transparency. It really helped give me some perspective knowing I'm not the only one!
That means a lot to me, Susan! I had finished the serial before I published chapter 1, which really took the pressure off. I’d love to write more fiction, but it does seem much easier to punch out an article instead. 😅
Thanks for being transparent here, and for including a link to your full story! I fall into the category that didn't read the serialization week to week but look forward to reading it in one sitting :-)
Thank you, Meredith! There have been a couple of serials on Substack that I started reading and then, when I got busy and missed an installment or two, I never finished, and I think that’s one of the “hard” things about a digital serial. Back in the days of newspapers and magazines, you could at least keep the hard copies handy.