Haha, yikes! I won't ask what stories these were. From my fanfiction years, I learned to never, ever publish an incomplete story. I wrote the whole thing, edited it, THEN serialized it. It saved me from a lot of the mistakes you mention here, like having to go back and foreshadow things you didn't figure out until the end. It also saved stories from dying in the Great Swampy Middle. Highly recommend.
Reminds me of the Folding Ideas discussion of Fifty Shades of Gray and how its serialism pokes through in the plot of the book and movie. Before that, I'd never thought about how the form of publication could impact the structure! Writing serially sounds terrifying to me tbh
Haha, yikes! I won't ask what stories these were. From my fanfiction years, I learned to never, ever publish an incomplete story. I wrote the whole thing, edited it, THEN serialized it. It saved me from a lot of the mistakes you mention here, like having to go back and foreshadow things you didn't figure out until the end. It also saved stories from dying in the Great Swampy Middle. Highly recommend.
Oh, yes. It is so important to have the whole story to see where the flaws lie.
Reminds me of the Folding Ideas discussion of Fifty Shades of Gray and how its serialism pokes through in the plot of the book and movie. Before that, I'd never thought about how the form of publication could impact the structure! Writing serially sounds terrifying to me tbh
So true. I could never do it.
Sometimes even in classics like Dickens, you can see the problems.