How streaming broke television

While rummaging through my back catalogue last week, I stumbled upon an old post called Planning your story’s big finale. Allow me to indulge myself by quoting my own writing: “Eighteen months in, I can see the end. It’s just peeking over the horizon, still a fair ways off but approaching with alar…

You’ve planned what you’re doing, you’ve started putting words to the page, and you’ve published some chapters of your serial fiction project. So…where is everyone? Part 4 of our Crafting serial fiction mini-series attempts to grapple with that exact question. In here you’ll find: * Finding readers…

A few years ago I decided to publish my 2020 serial No Adults Allowed as a paperback and ebook. As with all my major projects, I’d written it in Scrivener. While I love Scrivener as a writing tool, it doesn’t really work for me as a design tool. Exporting a pretty book is harder than it should be!…

We get to the big one: making money. Or, at least, it can be the big one, if you allow it. If you want it, there are levers to pull. You may want to simply write and not be sullied by the vagaries of capitalism. Perhaps there’s a happy place somewhere in the middle. In part 5 we poke at what we’ve …