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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
...of any kind and the train is coming at 70 mph.
The awful ones will not only not resolve anything but throw up more problems in the final chapter...
..Now if it was a full length book that is part one of say 6 or 8 I can understand it because it would cost 3 arms and 4 legs to print the entire thing at once and would be too heavy to lift.
Think Game of Thrones here...
...And the worst of the lot, do sell chapters individually. I have seen that a time or two.
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Alright, I think I'm getting it now.
I see the occasional benefit of a cliff-hanger, but only if it's before the final chapter, and that final chapter had BETTER BE GOOD! Not like the Starship Troopers animated series I watched as a kid, where the series left off on a cliff-hanger. (Still ticked about that all these years later.) So I agree that there are awful ones.
About length dictating the need to split into a series: Like my series. 8 parts altogether. Tried to write it as one, but more and more just kept developing and had to think about separating it and turning each part into its own novel with a definite ending and resolution to each one pretty early in my teenage years.
As far as Game of Throne: I feel like Martin had one long story going, chopped it up just after pivotal moments, and then left it like that. To me, it feel like the he made no real effort to differentiate the themes and all of each one, he just made a general title for each. Like I said, I just feel that way, I'm making NO claims that's what he actually did. It just READS that way to me.
And the worst of the lot: I see that A LOT on Smashwords, I admit.