Multiple Climaxes or Multiple Books?

[SummerSweetTea]

Would you rather read a single story with multiple conflicts that resolve at different times, aka multiple climaxes or would you rather see this spread out over two or three books and spend the time to throughly deal with each conflict?

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Depends.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

Would you rather read a single story with multiple conflicts that resolve at different times, aka multiple climaxes or would you rather see this spread out over two or three books and spend the time to throughly deal with each conflict?

I like the latter, but with multiple minor conflicts made and resolved throughout the story.
Also…
Why did you phrase it like that?! You fool!

 

[SummerSweetTea]

Well if I've learned anything from my short time here, climaxes get attention :P

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

Well if I've learned anything from my short time here, climaxes get attention :P

Pffft! Ha!

 

[SummerSweetTea]

Minor conflicts being resolved throughout seems reasonable but it just seems wrong to me to have two or three major obstacles resolved up neatly all in one book.

But then there is the worry about dragging it out too much... so many things to trigger my anxiety haha

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Minor conflicts being resolved throughout seems reasonable but it just seems wrong to me to have two or three major obstacles resolved up neatly all in one book.

But then there is the worry about dragging it out too much... so many things to trigger my anxiety haha

Are you writing a web novel, or something else?

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Well if I've learned anything from my short time here, climaxes get attention :P

I clicked on this thread because I saw climax in the title, and now I am staying for the responses.

 

[SummerSweetTea]

Are you writing a web novel, or something else?

It was written with the original plan of being physically published or maybe an ebook.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

It was written with the original plan of being physically published or maybe an ebook.

That's the answer to your question. Write multiple books. Though, it will probably hurt your views a lot. However, if you decide to do both, writing a hardcover while trying to fit it into a WN format, nothing good will come out of it. So either write two versions, kinda how Japanese have web and light novel versions, or stick with one if you don't have enough time\strength.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

If by climax you mean what happens in smut, I think multiple climaxes are better.

 

[SummerSweetTea]

That's the answer to your question. Write multiple books. Though, it will probably hurt your views a lot. However, if you decide to do both, writing a hardcover while trying to fit it into a WN format, nothing good will come out of it. So either write two versions, kinda how Japanese have web and light novel versions, or stick with one if you don't have enough time\strength.

What is it, really, that makes them so different other than how it's consumed?

 

[Succubiome]

It was written with the original plan of being physically published or maybe an ebook.

If you wanna physically publish it, you probably will need to make it be chunkable into different books if it's sufficiently long, just for printability-- IIRC Amazon KDP limits it to a little over 500 pages, for example.

That said-- I can enjoy climaxing twice in a short story, if it's interesting and the pacing is done well overall. I can enjoy being kept on edge and tortured through an entire novel for one really good climax.

I've seen people write webnovels/webtoons into different "acts", building to a climax, and pausing between them, but keeping the same name/page to link to-- I think this is probably the best way to do multiple novel type feeling things online I have seen.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What is it, really, that makes them so different other than how it's consumed?

Well, a lot. I think @Story_Marc talked about it briefly. Though he is usually busy, you can try asking him about this topic.

Since he is going to be busy, I guess I have to mention a couple things. First of all, formatting is different. A lot of people read web novels on their phones, some even write web novels on phones. Compare a phone with a book. Even small books are larger than phones, plus, the books page won't go anywhere even if you trace it with your finger. This is the first difference.

The second is difference in publishing methods, expectations and overall culture I guess. Like, even if your book is a freaking kickass story that is really fresh, unique and interesting, you probably will be left unnoticed if it's finished and has like 60-100 thousand words. Reason for that is, people who read web novels read different stuff, and expect different stuff. Obviously not all of them, but there is a reason why SH is smuthub, RR is LitRPG fanatics, and so on.

There are also multiple differences in how you write stuff. Like, when you write WNs, you can have less details, faster pace, less descriptions, more telling rather than showing, and so on. Partially because you compensate for this with the amount of chapters. Like, if you have 300+ chapters, more than million words in a single book, obviously you have to write it differently. And I won't even talk about chinese web novels that have 1000+ chapters. I hope I'm not too far off from the truth and it will help you at least a little bit.

 

[georgelee5786]

spread out

 

[Tyranomaster]

It was written with the original plan of being physically published or maybe an ebook.

That's the answer to your question. Write multiple books. Though, it will probably hurt your views a lot. However, if you decide to do both, writing a hardcover while trying to fit it into a WN format, nothing good will come out of it. So either write two versions, kinda how Japanese have web and light novel versions, or stick with one if you don't have enough time\strength.

I mean, if its the same overarching story, e.g. Harry Potter, on Scribblehub or other webnovel websites, I'd consider that a single story. Just label each book like I did, [Vol.1] [Vol.2] Etc. Then when/if you make it into a book, you already have things marked, and the people reading don't have to rediscover that you have a next volume to the series.

 

[J_Chemist]

spread out

like a fine pair of buns.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

I mean, if its the same overarching story, e.g. Harry Potter, on Scribblehub or other webnovel websites, I'd consider that a single story. Just label each book like I did, [Vol.1] [Vol.2] Etc. Then when/if you make it into a book, you already have things marked, and the people reading don't have to rediscover that you have a next volume to the series.

I agree with this take. I have seen multiple people tell me that they don't check an author's page when they read books. Some people don't even know the name of their author on site. I joined a community from SH, and told someone I wrote something on this site. They literally had no idea I was the author because they don't check names, and the book was completely different from my others.

 

[georgelee5786]

like a fine pair of buns.

So true

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I mean, if its the same overarching story, e.g. Harry Potter, on Scribblehub or other webnovel websites, I'd consider that a single story. Just label each book like I did, [Vol.1] [Vol.2] Etc. Then when/if you make it into a book, you already have things marked, and the people reading don't have to rediscover that you have a next volume to the series.

I forgot about this, yeah, you can do this. What I was talking about was the sturcture and so on.