Amnesia: The Dark Descent - The Novel

[Froge]

I personally dislike people who post novels chapter by chapter. It's a sign of immaturity, IMO, for a couple of reasons. First of all, successful authors never write for other people. Creative writing is to indulge into art for the sake of art. The craft is stained if one subjects art to the whims of others. That's not to say you shouldn't listen to the opinions of others, because they can be very helpful, but if you actually need external encouragement and reviews to begin writing a novel, you're clearly not motivated or experienced enough to commence the task.

Secondly, lots of kids and young teenagers release novels chapter by chapter. They can't write a full novel and release it at once because they don't have the patience to do so and always want people to keep acknowledging them. This is an observation that I've made which appears to be consistent from forum to forum on the Internet. I have never met a single person who releases novels chapter by chapter that came up with a decent and holistic story in the end.

I'm not saying that every novel has to be good enough to get published, but if you honestly have the motivation and creativity to write a full novel (even if it's a piece of fanfiction), you better make it impressive enough to read as if it's a piece of literature. Amnesia: The Dark Descent has an utterly astounding storyline and I probably won't read if I'm not impressed at first sight. Now this is just my personal and biased opinion, because for the novels that I've written, I usually tank out 50000 words at once (in book form that's about 200+ pages), and if people dislike it, sucks for me, time to start over. In doing this I've gained an enormous amount of experience on just how much motivation and creativity is sufficient to begin writing another novel, and I gauge myself frequently with this knowledge.