As evidenced by this post being three days late.
How are you, friend?
Anyway, I’m in the midst of an experiment, and I shall tell you about it because it involves you too.
So, every so often, we here at TDP sit down and look at what we’re doing, and whether or not what we’re doing is successful, and what we could potentially do to be more successful, etc., etc., et al.
One of the things we looked at recently involved our free shorts here on the website. We’ve been doing free shorts since we launched in 2010, to middling usefulness. So we looked at the shorts and how they were doing, and the data says that serial parts have, almost across the board, performed better than the stand alone shorts.
So we’re trying a move to just serials, and no more stand alones.
We decided that instead of mixing and matching serials, we’d have one person who would be the serial person for the year, and they’d write and then release a serial over however months were necessary for the story.
So that leads me to here. (I volunteered to be the guinea pig.)
No, this ain’t my first serial rodeo. But I did decide that, this time, I’d write the whole story at once.
This is new. Every serial I’ve ever written I write the needed part as necessary. I’ve never done the whole thing before parts started going live.
The thing about writing a serial as you go is, well, you can’t change the parts that are already live. If you think of something better? Too bad. If you realize you broke the plot three parts ago? You’re screwed.
So, because I am representing TDP (and am the only person doing shorts this year), I decided I’d better get my act together.
All this to say is, hopefully come June, you’ll start getting story bits here as the serial goes live.
Happy April!