Writing Serial Fiction In the Real World: A Simple, Tongue-in-Cheek Guide to Writing and Publishing Episodic eBooks For Profit on Amazon (and Elsewhere.)
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Many don't return. Fame and fortune are rare. Challenges may be impossible to solve...
The reason I wrote this for you was because I couldn’t find a decent ebook on Amazon for this subject. The two I could find there were pathetic (and if you think this one is another, perhaps you should be writing your own. Jump right in, the water’s fine…)
So I went out on the Internet and assembled all the research I could to see what and how this subject worked, if it did or not.
Then I compared what I'd learned with what I already knew – and wrote it up for you so you could use it.
You’ll see in the Appendix where you can find the same mentors who helped me help you.
I don’t pretend to know anything about this subject other than what you see here. So there.
I have published a couple hundred books, so I know how to research and edit and publish. Writing is an endless journey that takes you far, but you never see its end. As you apply yourself, as you push your own envelope, then you improve and find more areas to expand into.
Just to be transparent, my work has been in non-fiction (mostly.) And I got back into studying story structure and plotting, etc. Because the better selling non-fiction works were built on either a narrative, or the “Big Idea” (which is really a collection of short narratives built on the same theme.)
You’ll see later in this book my concept for a business plan you can use. How that will work for you is exactly as you understand what I wrote here, as you understand the authors I quoted and linked to, and as you apply this data to work for your own personal scene.
I think it can be made to work, despite all the naysayers we’ll encounter soon enough.
It’s up to you do decide whether you want to continue on and dive deep into the bottomless pool of your own creativity to surface with new ideas and applications.
Our target is that tiny school of small fish called serials.
Let’s see how they’re biting today…
(From the Introduction)
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Writing Serial Fiction In the Real World - Dr. Robert C. Worstell
Writing Serial Fiction In the Real World
A Simple, No-Nonsense Guidebook to Writing and Publishing Episodic eBooks Profitably on Amazon (and Elsewhere.)
Copyright © 2016 Midwest Journal Press. All Rights Reserved.
Table of Contents
BONUS
PART ONE - WHY SERIALS? WHY NOW?
INTRODUCTION: THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
WRITING SERIAL FICTION SUCCESSFULLY ISN’T FOR THE FAINT OF HEART
WHERE DID ALL THE SERIALS GO?
PART TWO - HOW TO ROLL YOUR OWN SERIAL AND NOT BURN YOUR FINGERS
BUILDING SERIALS IS A DIFFERENT TOOLSET, BUT THE SAME TOOLS.
5 DECENT TIPS ON WRITING SERIAL FICTION
5 MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN CREATING SERIAL FICTION
A SHORT SURVIVAL GUIDE TO SHORT STORIES
HOW DO YOU SELL THESE FRICKIN' THINGS?
BUILDING YOUR SERIALS FOR SUCCESSFUL SALES
A SHORT NOTE ON MARKETING AND ADVERTISING FOR SERIALS
HOW TO STUDY SUCCESSFUL TV SERIALS TO WRITE BETTER
PART THREE - ARE SERIALS SOMETHING TO BUILD AT HOME?
THE RISE AND FAILURE OF POPULAR SERIALS
ARE SERIALS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE TO WRITE, MARKET, AND PROFIT?
AND JUST WHEN YOU FELT LIKE GIVING UP...
PART FOUR – ONE SERIAL TO RULE THEM ALL
HOW YOU COULD WRITE YOUR OWN SERIAL SUCCESS STORY
THE NEEDS AND WANTS OF THE SERIAL WRITER
THE SERIAL WRITER RODE OFF INTO THE SUNSET, SINGING...
PART FIVE - APPENDIX
WRITING AND PUBLISHING LINKS:
Writing Links:
Publishing Links:
Other books in this series
Related Writing Texts Published by Midwest Journal Press
HOW MUCH YOU CAN MAKE WITH A GRINDSTONED NOSE
AS SEEN ON TV - THE HISTORY OF SERIALS AS WE'VE WATCHED THEM
HOW THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN
BONUS
BONUS
PART ONE - WHY SERIALS? WHY NOW?
INTRODUCTION: THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY...
The reason I wrote this for you was because I couldn’t find a decent ebook on Amazon for this subject. The two I could find there were pathetic (and if you think this one is another, perhaps you should be writing your own. Jump right in, the water’s fine…)
So I went out on the Internet and assembled all the research I could to see what and how this subject worked, if it did or not.
Then I compared what I'd learned with what I already knew – and wrote it up for you so you could use it.
You’ll see in the Appendix where you can find the same mentors who helped me help you.
I don’t pretend to know anything about this subject other than what you see here. So there.
I have published a couple hundred books, so I know how to research and edit and publish. Writing is an endless journey that takes you far, but you never see its end. As you apply yourself, as you push your own envelope, then you improve and find more areas to expand into.
Just to be transparent, my work has been in non-fiction (mostly.) And I got back into studying story structure and plotting, etc. Because the better selling non-fiction works were built on either a narrative, or the Big Idea
(which is really a collection of short narratives built