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the real, the unreal, and the Doctor
Doctor Who is not quite the perfect endless series, for all its virtues. It hits the same issue as the superhero behemoths: the relative weight of the historical real and the fictional real. And it does not manage to thread the needle there.
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series of days
There is one substantial problem with an endless series, even when you deal with the character development part by off-loading it onto secondary characters who come and go.
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knowledge is power
There's one advantage of the erratic, one-of-a-kind nature of superpowers.
There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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There's fewer questions about the advance of knowledge.
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philosophy of unceasing series
Was in some discussion of series lately. . . .
If you want a series that goes on and on and on --
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If you want a series that goes on and on and on --
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your canon, writ in air
And I thought the trains were an issue. . . .
There's a neat plot element. Among all the other ball bearings I am trying to corral and stick together into a story, there's neat little one that requires a character to hurt himself by doing something. Not as a consequence of doing something, something that depends on circumstances and setting, but directly by doing something.
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There's a neat plot element. Among all the other ball bearings I am trying to corral and stick together into a story, there's neat little one that requires a character to hurt himself by doing something. Not as a consequence of doing something, something that depends on circumstances and setting, but directly by doing something.
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juggling ideas
Got ideas. Got a lot of ideas. They go together nicely but do seem to spell out a series.
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metaphysics and the series
There are many good reasons for shoving the fictional metaphysics of your world off-stage, but one of them is that your story may turn into a series.
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series and the world
One thing a series needs is vistas.
If you keep on doing the same old thing in the series, you bore the reader. If you keep on introducing new things, after a time the readers wonder why they never heard of them before.
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If you keep on doing the same old thing in the series, you bore the reader. If you keep on introducing new things, after a time the readers wonder why they never heard of them before.
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short story cycle
It's a good thing I remember that this is a cycle -- by dint of reminding myself often -- because the outline for the fourth story is different from the others.
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sometime
Hmmm. . . that's the things about series. The events of one story set the timeline of another.
When the oldest children born to superheroes are about twelve, it therefore follows that even if the superheroes refrained in the first years, when they did not know how it would affect their children, it's about twelve years plus a little wiggle room since the heroes started to appear.
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When the oldest children born to superheroes are about twelve, it therefore follows that even if the superheroes refrained in the first years, when they did not know how it would affect their children, it's about twelve years plus a little wiggle room since the heroes started to appear.
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do stop thinking about tomorrow
Plugging along on my D&D outline, knowing there are two potential sequels springing from issues not resolved in this book. . . .
Trying to ignore them.
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Trying to ignore them.
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series and episodes
Been bugged by two series I have read recently. They should be either more, or less, episodic.
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order in a world
Have three stories floating about in a world. They would need to be in some kind of sequence.
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philosophic observations on casts of thousands and series
Immediately inspired by some talk about a TV show. where, of course, there's always the actor problem. But even in prose. . .
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chaos and sequels
A Dark Lord or other such Evil Force is a nice unifying thing for a story, and still more a series. However many minions he has, however many ramifications the plot has, the tale has a nice unity.
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the series as a work of art
A series can be viewed as a unified work of art. Something that hangs together.
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Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The origin of the lengthy Oz series -- a series that soon showed that demanding the author continue is not always wise -- but since they are at the beginning, the series is still going strong.
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The origin of the lengthy Oz series -- a series that soon showed that demanding the author continue is not always wise -- but since they are at the beginning, the series is still going strong.
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