The Inducement of Writing Series of Novels and the Reception Confusion——Thoughts about A Trilogy of Damo by Xuemo

The writing and the reception about series of novels have both general and some special characteristics. This paper does a case study of two aspects in A trilogy of Damo by Xue Mo, a famous western writer. The inducement includes irrevocable creative inertia and creative passion, awareness of writing improvements and further exploration, and mechanisms of market, payment and readers' incentive. The reception confusion mainly embodies intensely comparative feelings, the aesthetic fatigue in repeated reading, the instinctive consciousness for breakthrough and its too high expectation.