Of the nine short stories/novellas I've written over the last eighteen months, four are connected in some way. Some share characters, or mention is made of a character or event in another story. I am not speaking of a serial (though I have one in mind, starring two characters who have appeared in another of my stories). An incomplete novel also ties into these four stories.
This phenomenon didn't occur on purpose...they just kind of turned out that way, and they all tie together to form an interesting web, though not an actual story. More like a sketchy history of events in my fictional world. The five stories that are not connected to the others easily could be, but are stand-alones for now, and perhaps they always will be, I couldn't really say.
Just wondering if anyone else's stories fall into a similar pattern. If so, do you do it by design, perhaps as a vehicle for telling a larger story; or did it just happen that way? Or do you always write stories that stand alone?
This phenomenon didn't occur on purpose...they just kind of turned out that way, and they all tie together to form an interesting web, though not an actual story. More like a sketchy history of events in my fictional world. The five stories that are not connected to the others easily could be, but are stand-alones for now, and perhaps they always will be, I couldn't really say.
Just wondering if anyone else's stories fall into a similar pattern. If so, do you do it by design, perhaps as a vehicle for telling a larger story; or did it just happen that way? Or do you always write stories that stand alone?
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