In a message dated 2/2/02 2:29:25 PM,
buildsnburns@yahoo.com writes:
<< Don't most novels of any kind have cliff hangers
throughout? In effect, doesn't this make each novel a serial?
>>
What I discovered from writing a
novel that I knew would be serialized before it appeared in
book form, was that I had to guide or ride the story so as to
distribute major points of tension about every 10,000 -11,000
words. Since I don't know exactly what is going to happen as
the story develops, that is a little tricky.
To your point, it wasn't difficult to
accomplish, but I had to be aware of "blocks" of the story in
a way that I did not in my first (unserialized) novel. It may
be that others have had an altogether different experience,
but that was mine.
Jim
Blue
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