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Whelp! Here goes: ^^;

So, for the past three years I’ve been planning a short story series (think like an episodic tv show in prose). I chose this format because I knew that this story would not work as a novel series, at least not with what I had in my head.

I’m not exactly the strongest when it comes it plotting, but I’ve become pretty confident in my over-arching plot (or what I have of it), the character arcs I have planned, and the smaller overarching plots that make up the three “arcs” or “volumes” (or “seasons” lol) of the series.

The problems come with the episodic short stories. If I do say so myself, I’m pretty darn decent at coming up with premises–not so much with bite-sized plots. I don’t suppose anyone has any advice that could be applied to plotting short stories or novelettes–especially so that they don’t become too simplistic or repetitive?

I’m also wondering: if I never get the hang of bite-size plotting, do you think that readers (reading for free online) would be satisfied enough if I somehow miraculously managed to nail everything else (cool over-arching premise, creative world-building, fun characters, a dark-yet-whimsical writing style/atmosphere, and interesting over-arching plots and character arcs) to forgive simplistic “episode” plots?