A Splinterlands Thanksgiving Part 2
It took longer than expected 🙏 but here it is! The second installment of an epic three-part Splinterlands Thanksgiving Special!
Serialized Publication in Fiction
So this is a little late for the people's guild challenge 😁 but idk it took me this long, so ... 🤷♂ I'm a fan of the story so far though, I'm just going to keep rolling with it anyway. I'm hoping to finish the third installment within the next week or so. After that, pull all three together into one video, polished and cleaned up, and made to look all nice for posterity.
You might ask "why not do them all at once?" Fair question. Mainly because it takes a long time! Plus, I'm not the only one who tells stories like this, piece by piece, week by week. Television shows used to be like that (some still are I think?) and many of my favorite authors wrote books like that--month by month! They would tell a story one part at a time, in "serialized" form in a monthly journal or magazine. Once the story was done, then they'd go back, polish up all the pieces, and put them together into one final single piece of work.
Popular Fiction
Dickens is a classic example. He published vitually every one of his novels in serialized form via monthly or bi-monthly installments of the next chapter in the story. Below is a photo of Charles Dickens sitting at a table, looking like he just stayed up for the last 48 hours to make the deadline on the next chapter in his story. The old-school equivalent of a hackathon event.
Science, Horror & Fantasy Fiction
Many of the original founders of the "science" fiction genere started off in a similar way. H.G. Wells and H.P Lovecraft quickly come to mind. Here are some photos of those old dudes below. I wonder if those guys read some of my most favorite recent sci-fi (for example, 3-body, red rising, children of time, etc.), what would they think? 🤔 I think they'd be mostly impressed.
Below we have good old H.G. Wells in a coat and bowtie. Apparently he liked to write like this? I think most folks would prefer something a little more comfortable these days. Times change 🤷♂
Below we have creepy middle-aged H.P. Lovecraft looking like he just got arrested for falsely impersonating a worker at the local graveyard, while digging up the graves. This was a truly weird dude who wrote some truly amazing serialized science fiction/horror/fantasy. Definitely deserves his own post 💪 so not going to say anything more here.
Part 1 Below (If You Missed It!)
I hope you enjoyed Part 2 of the Splinterlands Thanksgiving Special above! Btw if you missed Part 1, you'll be linked to it at the end of the video, you can find it in my previous post on peakd, or you just click and watch it here: