Insider's Guide to Writing Serial Fiction
How to Write Successful Serial Fiction
Serial Fiction made a comeback with indie publishing. Readers like reading in segments on their phones or pads if the story holds them.
And sites now publish serial fiction, charging readers by the installment and making writers even more money.
But a better reason to learn the techniques of writing serial fiction goes to helping keep readers in your regular novels.
This workshop covers the techniques that are required in writing successful serial fiction.
Even though serial fiction lost popularity as I came into writing forty years ago, I still loved it and wrote many, many novels in a serial form over the decades, practicing the techniques needed to hold readers from segment to segment in a story.
In fact, as I write this, my newest novel, Marble Grant, was written completely in short story serial form.
This workshop keeps the focus on the techniques of writing serial fiction, including what types of story work best in serial form.
Your Instructor
With over twenty-three million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith now brings you original fiction every month for the past three years in his own magazine, Smith’s Monthly.
Dean wrote over twenty-five original Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, plus Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man novels, and others. He wrote many gaming novels including Final Fantasy.
He wrote novels and stories under almost fifty pen names and did scripts for Hollywood as well as being an editor for various magazines. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. You can follow his writing life at www.deanwesleysmith.com
Course Curriculum
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #1 Session #1... Focus (3:42)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #1 Session #2... What is Serial Fiction? (6:15)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #1 Session #3... History (5:57)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #1 Session #4... Character and character situation. (5:01)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #1 Session #5... Pacing... (5:14)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Assignment #1 (3:14)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #2 Session #1... Some basics (5:33)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #2 Session #2... Depth in openings, all of them. (3:50)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #2 Session #3... Installment lengths (5:48)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #2 Session #4... What must be in an installment. (6:14)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Week #2 Session #5... Why? (6:51)
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StartWriting Serial Fiction Assignment #2 (2:54)