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Thoughts on Writing Serials by Wildbow (wildbow.wordpress.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fiction

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When it comes to modern serial writers, there's not another name that comes to my mind more important than Wildbow. Author of Worm (Parahumans) and other lengthy serials, they are arguably the genesis of current interest in the medium.

I saw some really crappy books on Amazon purportedly teaching serial fiction, but then I went and found that Wildbow (John Charles McCrae) has a blog and chronicled his working experience.

Anyhoo, I just started reading it and I thought I'd share here.

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[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dead link (six months later) but for anyone finding this post IN THE YEAR 2000, this might be the same post.

https://wildbow.wordpress.com/2020/05/03/ward-off-a-retrospective-on-a-sequel/

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Huh. I just clicked on it and it went right there.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

A Lemmy quirk, maybe. I get an invalid error. Oh well! Thanks, chum.