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« on: July 04, 2025 @842.30 »


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Is anyone on this forum writing an original serial and publishing it on their own website? If so, I would love to visit your site and follow along. I've wanted to write one for a long time and have finally started Serial Sister. There are two installments so far (new weekly), and I am having a ball.

I'm opening this topic because I'm curious about the web-serial landscape today and about existing lineages online (one I know of from some years ago is Wiktopher by Rek Bell of Hundred Rabbits).

I like the idea of bookmarking web-serials to return to (bookmarking is so apt in this context). And I have a fantasy of the writers of web-serials linking to one another's work using badges - like a webring, but this one would be a bookshelf. E-bookshelf.

Fiction is a lot of work, and I would love for us to create some enthusiasm around one another's writing as well... reply with the link to your serial and a tagline if you have one?

Here's mine: Serial Sister is the sad story of a wandering divinity - a tale of woe.


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« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2025 @881.83 »

i'm not a writer i just wanted 2 say that this is a pretty good read =D
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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2025 @963.87 »

i have one :wizard: it’s called fantasyquest

blurb: FantasyQuest is a story of a boy who finds himself plunged into a strange fantasy realm, where he must survive the world and find his way back home. It is a simple, light-hearted sword and sorcery adventure novel that playfully embraces classic fantasy fun with quirky characters, mysteries, and satisfying progression. A new chapter is posted every Friday at 11 PM (a little earlier if you're logged in).

you can read it here https://dreamreach.net i built this whole web novel reader thing custom for it, including a login system with nested comments and such.

i stop posting because no one was reading it and i got sad lol. but i’m still writing. i suppose i could resume posting  :ok:

btw when i click your link it doesn’t load? maybe it’s an issue with my phone  :dunno:
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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2025 @982.43 »

My current web serial/novel? (not 100% on the difference, if there is one) is on hiatus while I re-collect motivation and inspiration for it, but it sits on my site regardless here :) (mind the content warnings). But I also post a lot of oneshots and some other shorter chaptered works on my site - they're all in my Library here.

I used to try to get one chapter out a month for the main story (The Progress of Things/TPOT) but I am a little burnt-out regarding it, so I'm just trying to get out a oneshot every month. Or two, ideally...

I really like the little font-changer you have on your site, tsem, I also have one specifically for my writing pages! I also think your story has a really strong, ethereal opening; your choice of words is very evocative, as are the ways you describe senses. Also, the idea of the e-bookshelf is really cool!
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« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2025 @47.88 »

on the go today so sharing random thoughts as time permits. would be cool for ring linking to each other but also somehow a page with a feed of chapters across all our books; a hub page. maybe someone here as expertise doing this sort of thing with each book being on different domain, different format, etc?

maybe the hub page is a rss feed aggregator?
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« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2025 @220.87 »

I haven't written a serial but I'm curious about the process. How do you guys outline? Do you have a consistent schedule or just post whenever you've finished something? Do you write as you go or do you write everything out first and then post it in chunks? There's no right or wrong way to do it, but I'm curious how you all like to do it. I've only ever written short stories, so figuring out how to divide things is what I keep getting stuck on.
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« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2025 @386.24 »

 
Thank you all for your responses. This is exactly what I hoped would happen. I love reading! lol.





you can read it here https://elsemere.com i built this whole web novel reader thing custom for it, including a login system with nested comments and such.

i stop posting because no one was reading it and i got sad lol. but i’m still writing. i suppose i could resume posting  :ok:

btw when i click your link it doesn’t load? maybe it’s an issue with my phone  :dunno:

The web-novel reader is so neat. I would love to be able to make something like that. I have only read the first couple of chapters of fantasyquest, but it is really, really good... I'm going to read more today. I'm glad you're still writing it, and I want to encourage you to keep posting (or consider publishing it in some other way). It is totally disheartening not to have found an audience, but I would follow along...
You didn't ask for advice, but have you shared it in writers' groups, like the ones on tumblr, or on other forums? Because I think that people could really get into this  :defrag: It's worth a shot..!
Sending another link to Serial Sister: [link]. I'm sorry the other one didn't work for you, can't figure out why...


My current web serial/novel? (not 100% on the difference, if there is one) is on hiatus while I re-collect motivation and inspiration for it, but it sits on my site regardless here :) (mind the content warnings). But I also post a lot of oneshots and some other shorter chaptered works on my site - they're all in my Library here.

I used to try to get one chapter out a month for the main story (The Progress of Things/TPOT) but I am a little burnt-out regarding it, so I'm just trying to get out a oneshot every month. Or two, ideally...

I really like the little font-changer you have on your site, tsem, I also have one specifically for my writing pages! I also think your story has a really strong, ethereal opening; your choice of words is very evocative, as are the ways you describe senses. Also, the idea of the e-bookshelf is really cool!

Thank you for all of your kind words about Serial Sister. I have started reading TPOT and am so intrigued by it - I love worlds like these. Cozy, layered, thrilling. Also very interested the way you have conceptualized magic in Numbers Story. There's so much to explore on your site, can't wait to poke around more :-)
I'm sorry about your burnout, but glad you've been able to step back from the novel for a while.


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« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2025 @711.19 »

You didn't ask for advice, but have you shared it in writers' groups, like the ones on tumblr, or on other forums? Because I think that people could get into this  :defrag: It's worth a shot..!

i very much want to be a part of a writer’s group or at least have writer penpals. i’ve never really used tumblr; where to start? and did you have other forums in mind? i want to join or form a group. are you in one? @Melooon has plans that may align with us forming a writing guild here on melondland (see https://forum.melonland.net/index.php?topic=4435.0 for info). would you be interested in collaborating on that with me?
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« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2025 @723.87 »

The web-novel reader is so neat. I would love to be able to make something like that. I have only read the first couple of chapters of fantasyquest, but it is really, really good... I'm going to read more today. I'm glad you're still writing it, and I want to encourage you to keep posting (or consider publishing it in some other way). It is totally disheartening not to have found an audience, but I would follow along...

thank you so much for this. because of your comment, i will resume posting chapters on fridays if you promise to keep posting chapters to yours :-) reception limited, on vacation, but have started reading yours and i’m hooked, will continue and follow-up.
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« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2025 @947.09 »

I haven't written a serial but I'm curious about the process. How do you guys outline? Do you have a consistent schedule or just post whenever you've finished something? Do you write as you go or do you write everything out first and then post it in chunks? There's no right or wrong way to do it, but I'm curious how you all like to do it. I've only ever written short stories, so figuring out how to divide things is what I keep getting stuck on.

i’ve kept a blog as i write on dreamreach.net where i dive into all of these questions to the extent that you can see all i’ve tried and how my process has evolved over time, complete with voice memos. but i can give a quick tldr on what i do today (my process has evolved drastically over the years):

outline: when i begin a new novel, i write a sentence or so and call it my outline. i write it anywhere, sometimes in pencil on an envelope or typed in plain text on my phone’s notes app. it’s a small thing and only a sort of germ of the idea, but it grounds me when i sit down to write. and as i write, i stand in the moment of the story, but sometimes i get glimpses into where the story could go, and so i’ll add those ideas to that little outline, forming it into a paragraph slowly over time. by the time the novel is half written, the paragraph is a page.

production: when i am actively writing, i write 500 net new words a day, every day, due by the next day’s sunrise. two pages hand written. i can write more, but no less. if i revise and lose words, i have to make them up. in this way, with a target word count, i know when my book will be done at the latest. i sometimes give myself a hiatus, freeing myself from any quota, and this period can last days or months and i’ll only end the hiatus when i feel healthy, rested, and hungry to begin writing again.

posting: i began posting my chapters weekly after finishing the novel’s first draft. this way i had assurance i wouldn’t leave readers hanging. the story does end! some writers post as they write but i’m not ready for that pressure.

i hope these answers help. reach out here, by private message, or email any time. i’d love to read your writings.
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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2025 @729.18 »

i very much want to be a part of a writer’s group or at least have writer penpals

Sent you a PM! :pc:

I haven't written a serial but I'm curious about the process. How do you guys outline? Do you have a consistent schedule or just post whenever you've finished something? Do you write as you go or do you write everything out first and then post it in chunks? There's no right or wrong way to do it, but I'm curious how you all like to do it. I've only ever written short stories, so figuring out how to divide things is what I keep getting stuck on.

This is a good question. The most I ever write in advance is one chapter. Curious about how others do it...
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I haven't written a serial but I'm curious about the process. How do you guys outline?
The most I ever write in advance is one chapter. Curious about how others do it...
I always create a general outline of what I want to happen, then write as I go. As long as I have a good timeline in my head, the story comes out feeling decently solid. Of course there are always flat or clunky bits that pop up, but that's just how writing be sometimes. And I wouldn't bother publishing on a schedule unless I'm being paid to do so, so I can mull the clunky bits over for however long I please.
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