Web Serial Pitches
In addition to the current novel I’m writing, I’ve been considering writing a weekly web serial. Once a week I’ll post a 3,000 word chapter of an ongoing story, available for free to anyone interested in reading it. Once it’s complete it’ll be packaged up and offered for sale as an ebook at all the usual outlets.
Why Web Fiction
Why?
For one, I find that a bit of writing unrelated to my current project gets my creative juices flowing. It primes the pump and gets me ready for the day’s business of slaving away in the word mines. Working on parallel projects also allows me to jump tracks if I get stuck and work on something unrelated.
Secondly, it’ll be another avenue for reader discovery of my work. Readers who like the style of my writing might be tempted to buy the books I have to offer, and the readers of my books may take up following the serial.
Third: I’ve got a number of ideas that work better in an open-ended episodic format well suited for serial fiction than self-contained novels.
Finally, it’s another potential income stream. The fiction will be free, yes, but I’ll provide a donation button, possibly with different thresholds for bonus content; extra chapters, perhaps, or the commissioning of series art, or hiring voice actors to read a chapter. The steady writing will also result in periodic ebook and paperback releases.
But all that is secondary to the fact that I think it’ll be fun.
Web Fiction Options
So what am I going to write? I’ve got a few ideas.
A series tracking the development of an alternative reality where superpowers appeared in the 16th century. Every arc is set in a different historical era.
Proof of mankind’s advanced technological past is discovered on the first manned trip to Mars. A mission is mounted to travel the stars in search of our forgotten past.
Characters in a medieval fantasy setting gradually discover that they’re AI simulations in a virtual reality MMORPG.
Desperate people slip the embargo Earth’s leaders have placed upon us after first contact with alien civilization, only to discover galactic society and culture are even more alien than they’d anticipated.
Agents in clock-punk renaissance Firenze in the service of Niccolo Machiavelli, keeping the city safe from its geniuses.
Life aboard a massive generation ship as it finally begins to reach its destination, filled with a people that no longer have but the faintest legends of Earth.
I’m sure I could knock out another half-dozen ideas if I put my mind to it, but this’ll do. Which of the above appeals to you? Which are you most interested in reading? Let me know in the comments.
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