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‘THE HOW TO SERIES’ aims to demystify the learning process and show you that anything can be learned with the right commitment and focus. The series covers a...
After helping you work out whether a series is right for your story, this Ultimate Guide will help you through every step. You’ll learn how to plan and execute your series to its full potential, along with how to create plot lines, characters and themes that will make for a compelling multi-volume story.
- Determine The Type of Series That Best Suits Your Story
- Plan... But only as Much as You Need to
- Dive in and Expand Your World
- Leave No Character Unexamined
- Make Sure Each Book Satisfies on Its Own
The first thing to do is figure out which kind of series suits your story idea. This will affect the way the following tips apply to you. Think about the series written by your favorite authors. Chances are that they all fall into one of these categories 1. Serial:featuring one overarching narrative told in several, chronological installments 2. Ep...
Not every type of series requires the same amount of prior planning. For instance, if you’re a committed free-writer, you’re probably interested in writing an episodic series, as it’s not necessary to have an overarching narrative connecting the different books. Authors writing serials, on the other hand, typically know how the whole thing will end...
While there are many differences between the three types of series, one thing is consistent: they all need a well-crafted worldin which the stories unfurl. Here a couple of tips to bring the universe of your series to life.
When we said characters are important, we don’t just mean the protagonists. They no doubt deserve the largest portion of your time, but they don’t exist on their own. Throughout their journeys, they’ll interact with many others, from enemies to friends, who’ll bring out the worst or best in our protagonists, so these side characters must have some ...
When actually draftingtheir books, a lot of series writers fall into the trap of writing filler novels. Sure, your books are part of something bigger than each individual title, but readers will buy them one by one, so you have to make sure each one is complete and unique. Otherwise, you risk losing the audience’s interest. This means that: 1. Each...
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- Know what makes writing series different. Writing a series is different to writing a standalone book for a number of reasons: Series have multi-novel continuity (this separates a book series from a book cycle) – characters and/or settings, and/or conflicts return.
- Choose a central conflict that sustains interest in your series. From Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series to Rowling’s fantasy epic Harry Potter, intriguing series have conflicts and characters whose development span multiple books.
- Create a fictional world readers will long to return to. Readers of Rowling’s fantasy series are eager to return to her fictional world because: It is rich in imaginative detail: Rowling thinks of every detail, from how bank vaults are guarded (by dragons) to the woods used to make magical wands and their properties.
- Outline your series in advance. If you tend not to plot usually, this can work for a novel. When you write a novel series, however, an outline is especially useful, as it helps you retain a bird’s eye view.
Nov 22, 2018 · How to plot a book series: 8 steps. Find your Central Idea, decide what type of series you are going to write. Decide if it will it be an episodic series with one central story over many volumes (i.e. every story is self-contained). Brainstorm key plot points for each book. List ideas for each book’s end goal and the series.
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A series is a set of works that the creator or creators have decided to group together, usually because they form a sequence or share a common universe. When works are posted as a series, they can be navigated in sequence using links in each work. You can subscribe to a series to be notified when a new work is added and/or updated.
