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Re: Neither of those examples are open-ended.

Posted by benjamin (@blev) on March 16, 2024, 4:03 p.m.

I meant open-ended in the story sense, like they’re just making it up as they go along. Sort of like my points across this thread… :-)

but yeah, sounds like most of Dickens was not actually done that way. As for Hitchhiker’s Guide, I think I had read somewhere that the reason the series went all over the place story-wise is because Adam’s didn’t really have a plan and was just making things up as he was going along, but I think that was more about his approach to writing the novels rather than the radio series.

And yes, I think I was conflating “serial” with “open-ended”. Your implication is correct that they are actually two separate concepts that sometimes overlap