Decisions to Make Before (or as) You Serialize Your Novel or Memoir

Basic Guidelines

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Basic Guidelines

Unlike writing a traditional book, the logistics of serialization are less straightforward. The rebirth of serialization is still in its infancy, and there aren’t really any rules yet.

That said, there are guidelines and logistics, but they’re individual.

How you’ll serialize a novel or memoir depends on answers to these three questions:

1. What do you want to produce?

2. Why are you doing this? What do you want to achieve?

3. How will y…