AdamCollings wrote:Cool. Sounds like you very much know what kind of writer you are / need to be.
I'm also an architect/plotter. And I agree it is a much better fit for serialised storytelling.
My book series is structured like a modern TV series. Each book (30,00 word novella) is an episode. There will be 6 episodes per season and I'm planning 4 seasons. I've only published two so far, but have the entire first season drafted, and the third episode close to being publishable.
I'll try to collect my thoughts to see what advice I might be able to offer you based on my experience so far. I don't know how valuable it'll be, but I'll give it a shot.
Stay tuned...
Thank you so much. I will repeat and emphasize however that I'm not an architect/plotter. I'm naturally very much a gardener/pantser. I have however come to realize over the years and after many failures that since serialization was always the goal, not one-shot, totally self-contained things that I have to become something I'm naturally unaccustomed to, like being organized in general.
I'd also like to add that for my idea, let's just call it Project Labor of Love to be simple and because that's the working title I've decided, there are at least four seasons each with 26 episodes for a total of 104 episodes and each episode taking anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 words to finish with each novel having a 3 episode bunch meaning 8 novels for each season and 32 novels overall.
So if you have any way to keep the plot, settings, characters and Meta narrative considerations for a series as big as this or even just the first season and first three episodes, which are structured like a three parter opening or a feature length 90 minutes movie opening, then I'm all ears. Honestly, just the first season would be good because I honestly expect this series to require a lot of time to adequately finish and connect the dots between the start and the finish line which I already know. Plus, it helps that since I like the quadrology format more than the standard trilogy format, season 1 is really intended to be more an introduction to the world, setting, and characters more so than having anything too plot critical things for the future. It'd be nice if it did, and I hope it does, but not necessary since the real crises doesn't start until season 2 and won't end until season 4.