Dickens serialization

So Charles Dickens was published in the mass-circulation magazines of his time, which were the grand avenues to the populace, the great unwashed, the purveyours of cheap mass produced stories.

And yet he wrote stories which have withstood the power of Time, look likely towithstand for many years to come. Stories which are used in all mediums.

And yet Dickens broke many of the cardinal commercial rules on what to write. He moralised to, and at, the readers, telling them of the evils of the poorhouse, the ingrained poverty of the slums, even the inefficiencies and glacial slowness of the British legal system.

His characters were real, and had a sense of time and place, and yet were also immortal.

Writing for magazines, similiar to Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens had in each episode to begin by resolving a "cliff hanger" and setting in place a fresh cliff hanger so the reader would buy the next instalment.

Most importantly he was published. He wrote and in the medium of his day got published.

Be it internet, or computer gamen magazine, newspaper, television script, play or book or "kindle".

As a writer we should aim to be published, and to be compensated for the time we have taken and the skills we employ, in creating something worthy for someone else to buy. Create something of value.

Be proud. Write.