I’m not very good at writing novels. I get distracted, I go off on tangents, I change my mind too often. What I end up with eventually is always the same: twenty pages or so that I’m pretty happy with, then another twenty that are okay but kind of meandering, and then a whole bunch that don’t seem to have any kind of cohesion at all.<\/p>\n
So I got this idea. I’ll write a serial instead. This way, I can sort of get the best of all possible worlds; I get the depth of a novel in bite-sized portions that I can probably keep under control. Well, okay, in the best of all<\/em> possible worlds I’d also get ridiculously stinking rich from it, but, hey.<\/p>\n My intended structure for this project is to write “linking” chapters that form an overarching narrative, and “flashback” chapters that are self-contained individual stories. So, basically, you get a cliffhanger every other time, alternating with complete works. This satisfies both my desire to keep on wheedling and my audience’s desire to read something that goddamn resolves sometime. Or so the theory goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m not very good at writing novels. I get distracted, I go off on tangents, I change my mind too often. What I end up with eventually is always the same: twenty pages or so that I’m pretty happy with, then another twenty that are okay but kind of meandering, and then a whole bunch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.perfectlydarien.com\/storytime\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}