How To Plan And Write A Series \\ Video #1: Different Types of Series
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- I’m thrilled to bring you my new 8-Part video series on “How To Plan & Write A Series”. In this first video, I’ll be giving an overview of the series, briefly discussing why series are so important for book sales, and then we’ll dive into our first topic: The Different Types of Series.
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Thanks so much for watching the first video in this new series. I hope you find this content super helpful. If you do, please subscribe with notifications on, like, comment, and share! Thank you so much. What type of series are you writing? Which type is your favorite to read?
I started a fantasy book for camp and I'm pretty sure it will be a first in a series. I will definitely be watching this series! Thank you so much for making these videos.
My favorite is dynamic type because I immerse into the world deeper and care about the characters more, and I love following big character arcs, so I started working on the first book for dynamic series. It's nice to care about the main character, knowing that she's going to be a part of my life for a long time and that she'll have a whole journey and lots of personal development. It won't be a long series though, it doesn't seem likely for me to manage long series. 4 or 5 books would be nice and cool. Ah, dreams :)
@@wellwell7429 I feel this way too!! 5 books would be wonderful!
Thank you so much for doing this! It's amazing to me how little there is about how to plan a series since so many indies write them! :)
I love reading fantasy series like the "Song of Ice and Fire", and Sarah Maas books. I like stand-alone romance series. When you described what an episodic series is, I immediately thought "The X-Files". Then you referenced it later in the video. I feel like I passed a test lol Looking forward to the rest of this series series.
This couldn't have come at a more perfect time--I'm in desperate need of some tips, tricks, and advice on writing/planning a series. So excited!! XD
Sooo excited about this. I'm currently working on writing a Contemporary Romance series. 💗💗💗
Woo hoo! I’ve been looking forward to this series series!
Woohoo!!
Writing the Stand-Alone...same town, setting, different h/h for each book. Contemporary Western Romance. I'll be back!
I'm currently outling an episodic superhero adventure series. It has some standalone at first, but it all comes together as the protagonist faces an opponent he defeated for good. His arch enemy, reborn with greater powers and ambitions.
Thank you! I'm writing my first book as a series lead and this makes me less nervous 😅
Thanks, I've almost finished my first series and I have decided the novel I am working on now should also be a series, so I must be at a serie-ous point in life!
Sarra, you’re an absolute gem! So excited for this series, your timing is incredible. 💕
YES! I've been waiting for this for years!!!
So happy, I was watching your how to edit your novel series when I got this notification, I have been looking forward for this series to come out as I will be planning my book #2 in my adventure thriller series in the Autumn, so this couldn't have come at a better time, thanks again Sarra.
So excited for this series!! I’m currently in the process of writing a dark romance trilogy, so I will be tuning in for each of these videos!
I've been looking forward for the series series! You couldn't have released it at a more perfect time! Thank you Sarra for all that you do. I greatly appreciate it :)
I want to thank you for keeping me sane during quarantine. You inspire me daily to be more organized and definitely motivate me to write. Thank you
Yay! Been waiting for this! Looking foward to the rest!
Very excited for this series! It's come at the perfect time for me. Thank you!!
Yes!!! You’re right on time... I have been back at planning writing my book(s). Thank you for sharing ☺️
I just started to plan my series when I got this notification! I'm so excited :D
I would love a video about a serial and a series!!
Perfect timing!! I’m so excited to see these videos as I’m beginning to plan my first series. 😍❤️
Oh my goodness YES!!! I've been scratching my head bare for this fantasy series I've been working on FOREVER. Thank you so much for this ❤❤
i just came across your channel a couple days ago in the midst of writing and i'm so glad!! your insight is so valuable and i can't wait to keep learning more 🤍
Just what I needed! I can't wait for the rest of the series series. I don't know how, but your videos always come just when I need them. Your videos are always so inspiring and informative and I hope I can take one of your courses one day!
I tend to be attracted to series that feature a dynamic plot but stand-alone couples. I think I've seen this most in paranormal romance, though I'm having a brain fart and can't think of an example right now. A plot that builds novel by novel, clearly building up to a big bad in such a way that you really need to read chronologically, but with a new couple leading the charge in each book. I think I'm so attracted to this kind of series because you get one awesome overarching paranormal or urban fantasy story with a lot of individual book-level love stories. And I'm a sucker for seeing two side characters I'm secretly shipping in Book One get their own romance in a later book in the series.
I wouldn't mind a video on a serial, by the way! I'm working on one right now and it's definitely a new and exciting challenge.
Yes to the video on serials please 🥰
so excited to follow this series. New author planning historical novel series, 17th-21st century based on family. Pantser nearly finished with book #1 and now "regrouping" to organizse after the fact to keep track of characters, dates, conflict et al..lots of work!
So excited for this series!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us! xx
Very excited for this series!
Thank you, Sarra! Yes, please, I'd love a serial vs. series video. I've been hearing about serials a lot lately. 😊
Law and order was one of the things that came to my mind as soon as you started talking about stand alone series.
Already loving the Series Series ♥
Awesome, Sarra! I'm looking forward to this series of videos. Appreciate you sharing this information.
Yes! I love that you're doing this series, and please discuss what a serial series is! So curious! Thanks, Sarra!
Yay it's finally here! ;) I love how you explained the different series types. And I do find your division to be on point! Specially the hybrid/ episodic one, I am reading Renee Bernard Jaded Gentelmen novels and those are 6 romance books set on 1 couple each but there is a lot of character interaction and the main mystery going on at the same time tying all the stories together.
Yes I would like to hear all the differences about the serial and dynamic series♡
I'm so excited you started this series! I'm currently planning my next series so perfect timing!
As I'm in the middle of writing a series, I just came up with an idea to write a series of novellas that would be stand-alone series, but I'm super excited about the hybrid paranormal idea I'll be working on next year. Thank you for this.
This is great Sarra! I've been looking for more information like this about writing a series. Looking forward to the upcoming weeks!
This is awesome and perfect timing for me. I'm finishing a 4 book series this year and plan to start a new series in 2021 (a 12 book series). Feels a bit overwhelming to me right now because I've only written 4 books in my two series and they are both dynamic series. I've been trying to decide if I want this new 12 book series to be dynamic or stand-alone. I'll definitely be taking notes each week. Thank you for planning this series of videos.
8-part video series, yeess, thumbs up right away! Pausing at the start to write this comment. I've developed some ideas for the series of books thanks to your advice in your previous videos, I'm a total newbie to writing though! So this video series is going to be extremely helpful.
This was fantastic!! I’ve been attempting to figure out what kind of series I’m creating, without even really knowing there WERE different kinds. SO HELPFUL.
Sarra is a dynamic writing and video maker, I love each and every one of her videos
Love reading series. I am just beginning to plan to write a series myself this is great to watch. Great info!
This is awesome and perfect timing!
Thank you!!
I'm in the middle of planning a YA dark fantasy series and need all the help I can get! You're the best, Sarra!!
Ohhhh what's it gonna be about?:o
@@totallyanonymousbish9599 kids being conscripted into the army to track and kill a magical enemy
As someone who has multiple series going on (both my own and with a group), I'm excited to hear your thoughts! I know I'll learn something new.
Thanks Sarra, so excited for this series!
I'm finally getting around to watch these videos, thank you so much! Very excited :) My Series is about the life and Friendship of 4 women in a time span of 60 years.
yesyesyesyes i am so excited! Thank you so much for doing this!!
I’m so excited about this series!!
Sounds great! You have so much energy for all that you do, amazing!
YES!!! Woot Woot!! I have been so excited about this series - series! and you do not disappoint Sarra! This is fantastic! I can't wait to learn more, as you are a wealth of knowledge and I always learn so much from you! I am in the brainstorming of my first novel that I want to turn into a series. It is going to be YA fantasy/mystery maybe? I am still researching! Thanks again for all you do! I can't wait for the next, and rest of your videos. Oh and I would love to hear more about the difference between serials and series, and serial series. :) P.S. I had to go to your blog to print the notes for this video! Great detailed information!
Just rewatched your video for my own series. I'm starting to edit book one in October and have rough ideas for the rest of the books. Using what I've learned now from this video I would definitely call it a dynamic series :) I love that you translate those terms to TV-Shows and that you bring up "Supernatural" :D I would say "The Walking Dead" is another dynamic series when it comes to TV and to the comics. "Fringe" is a bit difficult. It could be episodic, but the cases are so intwined with one another and the character development is building up as we go that I would say it's dynamic. Other dynamic shows I can think of are "Orphan Black" and "Ripper Street" :)
Thanks for your video. I love how you explain things! Sending love and creative vibes
Sooo excited about this!
I am so thrilled for this series of videos on series. I am glad that you brought up Hybrids/episodic series. The whole time you were talking about the first two in my mind I was categorizing my favorite series, but I wasn't sure where to put Dresden because I felt it had elements of both! Thank you for using that as your example. :)
Just stumbled here cause this was on my recommended, im subbing 💗 btw your channel name is so pretty 💗
Thank you Sarra, this helped me so much on my writing. I have a better understanding now on the direction I am going!! I can't wait for the rest of the videos.
Yes, this series comes at a perfect time! I'm really excited for the next videos, as this one was already so helpful! I'd be definitely interested in a video describing the differences between a series and serial! Thanks for this great Video!
Needed this! I'm working on a second standalone book in a series and this is timely!❤
I've been considering writing a standalone series so I'm excited to hear your thoughts! Also, yes. I would love a video on serials as well.
Love those examples to understand the difference in the types... I think I’m writing an episodic series. I have the first book written and then when I started brainstorming number two, I realized how massive I can make the story and how much I need to go back and change in the first book... I’m excited for this series, so thanks so much!
THANK YOU SARRA!!! This was so helpful and just what I needed right now! Can't wait to watch more from you on all this :)
Thank you, Sarra! Right when I needed it too.
I am excited for this! Your videos are always so helpful!
YAY! I am so excited for this! I'm working on a Metaphysical Fiction, Dynamic Series. I've got my notebook and I'm following along. I am so thankful you'll be discussing the emotional toll - that means a lot to me. I appreciate the elaboration on series types. And yes, tell us about the serial! 👍
I write m/m romances and my series so far have all been stand-alone series. I enjoy expanding the world a little bit with each book but also checking in with the previous heroes (I write what I love to read, basically;)). Right now, however, I'm editing a trilogy that fits more into the dynamic series description, because there's a different couple's love story in each book, but there's an overarching plot, so people will have to read the books in order to get the complete story.
I'm looking forward to the rest of the videos, since I love writing series! And I'm especially interested in the video on the emotional impact of writing them, because you're right, that's almost never a part of the conversation on series.
This sounds great!
Hi! I just want to recommend you the Green Creek (Wolfsong) series by TJ Klune. It's an M/M fantasy series. Each book has new couple pov, but the story continues. So it's just like what you're writing. :)
Wow! Really excited about this series. Exactly what I need to know about. Thank you. ❤
Glad I stumbled on this video, I'm currently working on two different series.
One is an epic urban fantasy, the other just an epic fantasy.
Just in case you are unaware epic fantasies tend to be your multi book series that are around 300,000+ words each book. Examples of such are A Song of Ice and Fire, The Wheel of Time, and The Stormlight Archive.
I've never heard of the term dynamic series before, but I really like it.
I've tried to write more contained works, but I doubt many of my ideas will ever be shorter that trilogies.
Big multi book fantasy series are what I love to read, and what inspired my writing journey in the first place.
I found the video informative.
Great video, looking forward to the rest!
Your house analogy was great. Thanks for this video! You helped me realize I want to write an episodic series.
Yay. I've been looking forward to this series about series.
Yay! Thanks Sonia!
I really love the house/community/estate analogy. Super helpful, thank you 😘
Yes, please! I've been wanting to learn more about serials.
Really looking forward to this series of videos!!! Your series of outline had help me a lot when I get stuck so I’m excited for another serie of educational and helpful videos. Thank you for sharing so much wisdom with the writing community.
Very excited about this series series. Thank you for all your wonderful information.
Underrated channel!
Thank you! 🙌
I’ve published 3 children’s book and it has been an awesome experience
Excited to sit down with this series and take notes, but for now I put it on .5 playback on a low volume and let Sarra talk me to sleep. 10/10 do recommend for people with high anxiety who need noise at night, but need something consistent and calm. Thank you for being my sleep and writing buddy, Sarra!!
I am looking forward to this series. :) I have an old trilogy that I would like to clean up and finally finish. I think this primer on developing a series will be perfect to help me figure out how to do this. Thanks for all the great author content!
Absolutely fabulous! Midway through your HB90 course, I knew what I wanted to work on a series. But I also knew I didn't know how to go about it. This is so timely. Your Episodic explanation, explains exactly all the ideas I have going on in my head that wasn't really clear. Thank you!
Thank you! Love this! I am interested in the difference between series and serial.
More, please! And yes, I'd love to hear more about serial novels. Thank you!
A video about series vs serials sounds interesting to me. Also, I'm so excited for this video series! Thank you so much for putting it together!
This video was perfect. I cant wait for the rest of the videos!
Thank you so much for doing this series! It's really helpful. I was really conflicted about whether I was writing a series, or for stand-alone novels with a shared setting.. Turns out I'm writing an episodic series! It's new adult contemporary, focused on relationships, but not really romantic ones. It's an exploration of how we navigate the world as young adults, I guess. I'm still figuring it all out, so this series is going to be super useful for me! Thank you for creating it!
So looking forward to your insights!! I'd love your take on serials! I'm writing a series now that I can't decide if it should be a serial or not.
What a wonderful video! Thank you so much, Sarra. Yes, I'd love to hear a video on serial series! ;)
I think my story will take 3 books to tell, so this series is coming at a great time! Looking forward to the next video!
I'm working on a series now. This is perfect.
I love this! I cannot wait for the rest of your videos. I am definitely a series reader/writer. I love being invested in characters for the long haul. Currently, I am writing a dynamic epic fantasy series and also a dynamic romance trilogy that will eventually have spinoff books for supporting characters.
Yes, this is exactly what I need, thank you so much.
Sarra, you are anazing, I have no idea how you manage this huge output of work. I am a planner, not a writer but I love your writing videos, always so interesting.
Thank you for this series! :) I am writing a trilogy...but have introduced some secondary characters who could potentially be H/h for additional titles. So this is very helpful information for me.
Thank you for doing this video series! I always find your advice super helpful and insightful
This is like a good college lecture. Quality stuff. Makes me think about things I would not have thought of on my own. Had to take notes on this. You use a lot of examples, which is good because it helps each idea to sink in. Sounds great at 1.25 playback speed, which feels like getting a good lecture and still getting out of class early. 😁
thank you so much for this!!
exactly what I needed! Thank you so much Sarra
I just started my first book and need help. Perfect timing.
I've watched a lot of stuff on self-publishing series and you're one of the only people to bring up queer and LGBT and polyamorous romance. So thank you. That was nice to hear this morning. ❤
I am so excited for this series! I am finally making headway on my first novel and I really want to make it a whole series so I will be watching these videos over and over I think. AND it gives me a reason to use up another notebook! All the notes and thoughts as i watch.
Yay for a new notebook!
Hi. Thanks for sharing! I'm in the process of writing an Urban Christian drama trilogy with plans of afterward writing a spin-off saga series involving the same cast of characters and setting
from my trilogy. I think the standalone type is probably best for me. Loved your house analogies! :)
This is great. I'm so excited for the rest of the series series. I like mysteries series like Sue Grafton's alphabet series, Diane Mott Davison's Goldie the Caterer or Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr series. I'm trying to write a series along those lines.
Would love to see a video on the differences between serial versus series! But then again, I love all the videos you post. ;)