Webnovela

A webnovela or foronovela is a phenomenon in Latin American and European countries like Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Colombia, Czech Republic , Dominican Republic, Estonia, Mexico, Peru, Poland , Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia , Serbia, Slovakia, Spain , Uruguay and Venezuela among others. The term "webnovela", translated to English means "web novel". It is like a television soap opera with actors and soundtrack among other traits. Its base principally is fan fiction, where fans of a certain serial or soap opera (in Spanish telenovela) or certain actor or actress create a story based on them.

Characteristics

Usually, a webnovela contains one or more of the following traits:

• Its length varies from 40 to 60 chapters
• For the characters, they combine actors, singers and models.
• They use the slang of the country where the story is written.

Cyberseries

A variation of the webnovela is the cyberserie. The cyberserie are more like North American series. They have seasons, and are composed usually of Anglo-Saxon actors.