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A quick guide to lots of useful things for fiction writers

Dec 13, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Tales from the Triverse story index

A weekly dose of science fiction, fantasy and detective fiction. Pick from individual stories or read the whole thing from the beginning.

Jan 31, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Nil sine labore: nothing without labour

How much effort is the right amount?

Mar 9 • Simon K Jones

Substack & enshittification: where are we at?

Where is Substack on the inevitable route to enshittification?

Mar 2 • Simon K Jones

28:23

Music foundations: soundtrack heaven for focused writing sessions

Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, Brad Fiedel, Sea Power, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Mulatu Astatke, Austin Wintory, Philip Glass, Fingerspit, Clinton…

Feb 23 • Simon K Jones

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What actually is Substack?

Sep 18, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Understanding the Substack toolkit

Sep 25, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Why I left Wattpad for Substack

May 15, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Quickstart guide for Substack fiction writers

Apr 3, 2023 • Simon K Jones

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Comic foundations: Gotham Central, Naruto, SAGA and more...

The comics that helped shape my writing

Feb 16 • Simon K Jones

Tales from the Triverse subscriber's ebook

Download the final epub and PDF collections

Feb 9 • Simon K Jones

Triverse: What happens next

It's like the end credits for a film, sort of

Feb 6 • Simon K Jones

32:16

Simon K. Jones — Landing the Plane on a 5-Year Serial

10 Years of Serialized Fiction & a 5 Year Story

Published on House Of Chapters • Feb 5

16:23

Triverse: Thanks & acknowledgements

Looking back on four years and four months

Feb 2 • Simon K Jones

The White Horse

Closing time. The conclusion to Tales from the Triverse.

Jan 30 • Simon K Jones

2026 tech stack for serial fiction writers

All the things you might need to run a weekly story

Jan 26 • Simon K Jones

Bonus: The Triverse Times

29 October 1980. Morning edition. £1.50

Jan 23 • Simon K Jones

21:33

Reading 'The Koth': Top in Fiction Summit 2026

A recording from Saturday's live video

Jan 19 • Simon K Jones

Books

No Adults Allowed

An optimistic story about the end of the world. Buy the paperback.

Tales from the Triverse

My current on-going weekly serial

How to Write Serial Fiction

The 22-part beginner's guide

Newsletters

Everything Substack

A no-nonsense guide to using Substack for writers.

How to write serial fiction

A step-by-step guide to writing serial fiction, drawing on my 10+ years of experience.

Let's Watch: Babylon 5

I'm rewatching the 90s TV show Babylon 5. Watch it with me!

Recommendations

J. M. Elliott

The SneakyArt Post

Nishant Jain

Naomi Alderman

January Joy(ful) Growth Club with Russell and Claire

Chris Plante

Serial fiction toolkit

💬 I've been writing serial fiction for 10 years. Ask me anything!

10 years of weekly chapters is a lot of words...

Jun 9, 2025 • Simon K Jones

The Novel vs The Serial: exploring the structural differences

A serial does not have to be a slow-release novel

Feb 24, 2025 • Simon K Jones

The temporal aspect of serials

My serial is two and a half years old

Jun 10, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Almost everything you need to know about writing online serial fiction

Lots of useful things in one place

May 13, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Want to talk about writing serial fiction?

Got questions about writing an online serial? Book a video chat!

May 13, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Newsletter growth

Understanding Substack's analytics

An updated tour guide

Dec 1, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Figuring out the serial publishing model

(and how I got it wrong)

Nov 17, 2025 • Simon K Jones

How to find new readers with a BookFunnel group promo

Sometimes you need to find your people

Jun 30, 2025 • Simon K Jones

4:59

Please don't ask for subs and follows

The era of big metrics is over (well, sort of)

Dec 9, 2024 • Simon K Jones

How to (slowly) cultivate a fiction newsletter: part 2

Some more thoughts from 3 years of publishing

Nov 11, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Planning & plotting

Writing from a limited, subjective point of view

It's all about what they don't know

Jul 7, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Why does planning work so well on paper?

Sometimes, technology just gets in the way

May 19, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Pacing, monotony & cliffhangers

Introducing...the buckets of pacing!

Mar 3, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Landing the plane

The final 2,000 words might be the most important

Dec 23, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Foreshadowing in online serials

Predicting the future

Nov 25, 2024 • Simon K Jones

Being a writer

Nil sine labore: nothing without labour

How much effort is the right amount?

Mar 9 • Simon K Jones

Music foundations: soundtrack heaven for focused writing sessions

Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Hermann, Brad Fiedel, Sea Power, Paul Leonard-Morgan, Mulatu Astatke, Austin Wintory, Philip Glass, Fingerspit, Clinton…

Feb 23 • Simon K Jones

Atoning for my AI sins

AKA a hand-drawn introduction to the Triverse

Nov 24, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Is AI a cure for writer's block?

Spoiler: probably not

Nov 3, 2025 • Simon K Jones

The tricky ethics of using real world events in fiction

When do references to the real world become exploitative?

Oct 13, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Connecting with audiences

The best serial storytelling is not on TV

Lamenting the loss of the 22-episode story structure

Oct 6, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Author + reader = story

Don't skip the conversation

Sep 1, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Celebrating 330,000 words with a live author reading

Go back to the start with the first chapter of Tales from the Triverse

Mar 31, 2025 • Simon K Jones

21:55

Finding your community on Substack

An overview of newsletter community features

Dec 16, 2024 • Simon K Jones

7:19

The reader connection in serial fiction

I interviewed one of my veteran readers

Aug 19, 2024 • Simon K Jones

World building

World building mini guide

A sketchy sketch

Oct 20, 2025 • Simon K Jones

My 7 Pillars of World Building

How much lore does a story really need?

May 5, 2025 • Simon K Jones

How to construct a story

Taking a look at characters, themes, world building and plot

Oct 7, 2024 • Simon K Jones

25:38

Fictional maps: yes or no?

Do you like fictional maps, or think they get in the way of the writing?

Feb 26, 2024 • Simon K Jones

How to do exposition without it turning into an infodump

How to explain things without killing your story dead

Mar 27, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Design & presentation

16:09

How to add images, videos and audio to your newsletter

Voiceovers, embeds, stock, AI generation, podcast distribution and more...

Mar 10, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Transforming a serial story into a book

All about the development of No Adults Allowed

Jun 24, 2024 • Simon K Jones

20:34

Content warnings & age ratings

Figuring out where to pitch your stories

Jan 30, 2023 • Simon K Jones

Preparing a book for publication

Diving into the process of self-publishing a book on Amazon.

Nov 21, 2022 • Simon K Jones

Relinquishing control to a publisher

Or: What happens when someone else designs your book cover

Aug 15, 2022 • Simon K Jones

Tools & software

28:23

Substack & enshittification: where are we at?

Where is Substack on the inevitable route to enshittification?

Mar 2 • Simon K Jones

Being a copywriter in the AI era

Navigating the weirdest decade in which to be a writer

Nov 10, 2025 • Simon K Jones and Tom Albrighton

37:21

A quick and easy way to format your ebook and paperback files

Taking a tour of the Reedsy Editor

Jun 23, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Cultivating a healthy reader community

Or: What to do when Emma Horsedick comes a-riding

Apr 21, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Taking another look at genAI for 2025

Updated thoughts on the most tedious of all the tech bubbles

Mar 17, 2025 • Simon K Jones

Write More with Simon K Jones

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