Ah anonymity! But I think you're mistaking me for someone else. Anyway, judging from the almost nil response to my post, I agree that most people will not appreciate a serial, at least not until it becomes popular. I for one like continuing sagas and the prospect that they may or may not end, and think that nice, neatly packaged beginnings and endings are way overrated. Just another part of the conditioning we get about how "things must be." An ongoing serial (not simply a completed novel that is serialized) gives the writer considerably more creative freedom and allows for a more thorough development of story and characters. The reader gets the benefit of a longer and better developed novel and doesn't have to spend the initial ten or fifteen dollars for a book he may very well regret having spent and having had to waste hours reading. If I spend $2.99 for twenty or thirty-thousand words, I'll certainly know after having read it if I want to continue on with the book. If a few writers are successful with this alternate format, the readers will come around and give it a try. Thanks for your good post.
