Question!
I was recently told that those who write series are money hungry and if you can’t write the story in a single book you’re lazy.
Is this true or false for you?
Not the first time I’ve heard this.
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I was recently told that those who write series are money hungry and if you can’t write the story in a single book you’re lazy.
Is this true or false for you?
Not the first time I’ve heard this.
#WritingCommunity #ReadersCommunity
Comments
You’re only money-hungry as a writer if you deliver false promises to your audience, you rely heavily on overdone clichés, and you care more about your story being adapted over writing a genuinely good story.
It also makes someone a bad writer if they leave their own audience in the dark.
You’re better off writing your stories, and the lives of your characters as a series. It gives you more room to develop the plot better without everything being rushed.
Everything is just left out in the open where the author’s world delivers more questions rather than answers.
I would rather have a story which slowly reveals everything rather than nothing at all.
Remaining consistent, back stepping, and ensuring everyone is where they need to be is hard.
Then there’s the rewriting and editing.
Lazy must be used like phat, I think
Go wild. A 1tb HDD can hold like 600,000,000 pages of text. You're not gonna run out.
Besides, fans ASK for more constantly
Maybe some people don't have a series in them & that's ok, but let people write :)
That said, I do like it when a book 'ends' even if it's part of a series. Cliffhangers are a pain unless the author is super quick to get the next-in-line to press.
Mine fall into serials, it’s a continuous story, but the publisher wants to put one out every 6 months once the first one comes out for that reason.
False. I love series. In fact, I prefer them to singles.
Unfortunately, agents are hard to get for new authors with super long novels
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