How do I make the premise of an epsodic series understandable through a one-shot?

@JoshRaed JoshRaid
Tue, 27 Jun 2023 07:42:45 +0000

@JoshRaed wrote:

As it stands now, my one-shot story required me to explain the entirety of what the characters do with their lives, and I'm not sure what would make the story actually explain itself.

The series is about a girl, her mom, and her brother, traveling the country in an RV as they encounter horror monsters and stuff and deal with them. Every chapter would be something different.

I really don't know how to make this concept understandable with just one episode or whatever. Like the RV, protagonist, mother, and brother are already there, and she does encounter a monster and deal with it, with her psychic powers, but no one can seem to piece together what the series is about regardless of those details.

I don't really get how other shows do it. I can't put a theme song to explain this in a webcomic, and I can't reference other episodes because this is a one-shot, and I don't think connecting this idea to a whole series that doesn't exist would work either. What could I do instead?