Would you buy a novel knowing it was broken into several short stories with an overarching plot?
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Depends on the author, depends on the genre. Short stories give a different brain hit than a novel. It’s more suited to horror, IMO. A horror short and a horror novel both provide the same sense of hopeless despair.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
People read a novel because they want to experience the arc and the emotion typically provided by the genre; for romance, love, for thrillers action overcoming impossible odds, for mystery the feeling of unraveling and outsmarting or being outsmarted.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
Short stories don’t provide the same emotion as novels, no matter the genre, they usually provide a moralism, a question a feeling of overturning assumptions.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
In a short story you almost never identify with the characters, you almost always remain an observer. So I’d say, depends what you are trying to do.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
Sorry that was a lot. I think about this a lot Actually. I’m done now.
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Replying to @Emily30Red
Very thorough. I was thinking along the lines of The Last Wish, the first Witcher novel. It’s a collection of the serial stories of Geralt and introduces him and other characters with an overall storyline running between the short stories. Have you read it?
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
No I have not...yet! think a serial series Is different than a short story series based precisely on the fact that in a serial you are meant to identify with the main.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
So if it’s a serial series go for it.
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I suppose that makes sense. But how would one call it a serial if one doesn’t run it anywhere ahead of time?
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
Well don’t call it that. It’s just an ongoing adventure series.
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Replying to @Emily30Red @TheBrometheus
A series of related novels in the same universe with one theme. It doesn’t need to get a special name beforehand
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