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Albert's Day - Chapter 3

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Albert's Day Chapter 3 is up for its sins.

 

I was trying to work, and all I could think about was the story. I've come to the conclusion this is probably not good, but it is necessary. After all, characters, whether in real life or fiction, have lives; and those lives are important... Especially to the one writing them. Fail and they die; not on the page necessarily, but in the readers heart.

 

I've said that I hate serials because you never know 1) if the writer will bother to finish it, and 2) because I'm really, really impatient. I must add to that that 3) my mind/brain/squidgy thing in my head removes things faster than I'd like. I can read a book, and a while later (year or so) re-read it as if I'd never read it to begin with... So with long running serials with l a r g e chapter gaps - and there are a couple I like, I find myself having to start at the beginning several times, or at least skim read them. This is a pain.

 

Anyway. I've kind of changed my mind, and for this reason: Serials are fresh. They are a slice of time that you live through with the writer. You don't know what's going to happen, and probably neither does the author. This makes them exciting.

 

Waffle over.

 

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AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace 191

Posted

Well said Camy!

 

I really enjoyed chapter 3. I'm so glad you're updating so quickly. I look forward to the next chapter!

 

Kevin

Camy

Camy 57

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Thanks Kevin.

I really appreciate your comments, and I'll try and update tonight. I've nearly got chapter 4 finished...

 

Camy

Guest Kitty

Guest Kitty

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I'm really liking this story.

 

I was thinking about what you said about online serial stories ... also thinking back to Victorian days, when writers such as Dickens had their novels first published in serial form, and the readers anxiously awaited each installment. I imagine someone has done some kind of comparison of that with modern online serials ... if not, they ought to :)

 

Kitty

Camy

Camy 57

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I'm really liking this story.

I cannot express how happy that makes me :D Erm... Probably WOOT! :D

 

I was thinking about what you said about online serial stories ... also thinking back to Victorian days, when writers such as Dickens had their novels first published in serial form, and the readers anxiously awaited each installment. I imagine someone has done some kind of comparison of that with modern online serials ... if not, they ought to :)

Kitty

I had a quick Google and came up with a couple of interesting sites:

http://www.fathom.com/course/21701754/session4.html

Says:

A point of interest about Oliver Twist's original publication is that serial fictions, not being self-contained, incorporate the times. Eminent scholars have identified many topics of the day to which serials make reference.

This is absolutely true, though I suspect if you take any modern fiction it would embody the time in which it was written.

 

From the point of view of language and the l e n g t h of the paragraphs...This just made me laugh.

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/CD-Shelston.html

I'm sure it's 'worthy', but definitely better than sleeping tablets.

 

Thanks again for your comments.

 

Camy ;)

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