Multiple Climaxes or Multiple Books?

[J_Chemist]

So true

 

[ACertainPassingUser]

Depends on which side you're supporting.

Multiple Climax would satisfy readers

But

Multiple book would satisfy author

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Multiple climax means your story will be packed within short book and there's lots of climax and sense of closure within short read.

Multiple book means your story will be very long and a drag of a filler before another climax would come.

It's like 1 Anime Movie with high quality story with no filler and superb animation, or 12 episode of long arching and subpar animation episodes that get stretched a lot.

 

[Story_Marc]

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.

Yeah, I should make a big video about this eventually... There's so much to do...

Anyway, I personally prefer things spread across multiple different books, but I'm more of a fan of traditional literature and light novels than I am webnovels (despite understanding the latter). There is the volume format as well if you wish to mimic light novels.

A lot of what Sailus says hits what I'd say. There are more details I could add, but what I say is that you should consider the medium you're releasing on as well as what appeals the most to you.

 

[sanitylimited]

climax at the start to hook the viewers and then be a massive disapointment. this will lul your readers into seting their standards low whilst eagerly waiting for you to get it up again

 

[dummycake]

climax at the start to hook the viewers and then be a massive disapointment. this will lul your readers into seting their standards low whilst eagerly waiting for you to get it up again

this is definitely objective and totally not coming from a traumatized and sour reader

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Just keep writing and see if it feels right to break it into separate books.