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sNOw Blog This Week

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As you may or may not know, the Eastern US had a lot of snow this week. While I won’t pretend the 6 inches we got was comparable to the several feet the Northeast got, it still basically ate two days of writing time. To keep on track, I skipped the blog this week. Sorry folks.

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Descendants Serial: Resolutions (2015 Edition)

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So. 2015 is here and none too soon. I was not fond of 2014. Not only were there awful things on the world stage like ISIS, Ebola, Robin Williams dying, and Kindle Unlimited, but I had numerous bad things go down in my personal life. The only good thing was that my writing career started to pay off, which is nice, but I’d pay back the money to erase a few key events (Where’s Mephisto when you need him?)

New Years is often the time when people make resolutions, and historically, I was never one for that sort of thing. I don’t plan in general, so trying to promise myself I’ll do things over an entire year ain’t happening.

In general though, I do keep my promises to you guys (blog posts not withstanding), so I feel pretty comfortable letting you guys know what’s coming up both for my works and the site in general in the coming year. Also, as this is a year in review (and I didn’t have a 5th Wednesday thing last month), I’ll also be giving some entertainment suggestions from the stuff I’ve … Continue reading

The (Very) Long Form Part 2

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Greetings, my wonderful readers (and people who followed a link here blind)!

Before I dive into Part 2 of my series on the serial writing form, I just want to say thank you to all of you who have bought books, recommended books, etc of mine this year. For the second year in a row, I was able to do all my Christmas shopping using the proceeds of from my work and that’s a damn good feeling. Thank you all for being so awesome and helping me get closer than ever to living my dream.

Aaand with the shmaltz done, we’re back to talk about serial writing. Specifically, this time around, we’re talking about the anatomy of the form; what key elements go into a serial to make it what it is. To avoid repetition, I’m going to just ay this once: not all serials will have all of these things in them. It’s a highly customizable artform, but there are of course recurring tropes and themes.

First and foremost:

The Core Plot

While many serial tales will have many main plots over the course of its lifetime (remember when the group at Freeland House were trying to hide from … Continue reading

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