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Thoughts on writing serial online fiction and other fun things

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Meaghan McIsaac
Nov 07, 2022
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Whenever anyone talks about serial fiction, the classic go-to example is Dickens. Charles Dickens wrote most of his novels in serial form, tiny bite sized chunks in newspapers that were accessible to a wide variety of readers – after all, more readers could afford a newspaper than a book in Victorian London. A master of the cliffhanger, you can see the …

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