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That’s right, the “perfect” serialized novel or memoir. Perfect—in scare quotes. Because there’s no such thing as the perfect novel or memoir; we can only approximate.
How close we get depends on how well we master the genre and medium, i.e., book, magazine, website, newsletter, etc.