Comments on: Reviving the Serial Novel http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2003/05/reviving-the-serial-novel/ Unclarifying the issues since 2000 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:49:46 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Counterfactually Speaking http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2003/05/reviving-the-serial-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Counterfactually Speaking Sun, 02 Nov 2003 03:26:23 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=453#comment-86 <strong>Serial novel by blog?</strong> I started thinking about the possibility of writing a serial novel by weblog. (I've also thought about writing a community novel by Wiki, but that's a whole other can of worms.) It seems to me that it might be a... Serial novel by blog?

I started thinking about the possibility of writing a serial novel by weblog. (I’ve also thought about writing a community novel by Wiki, but that’s a whole other can of worms.) It seems to me that it might be a…

]]> By: Hugh Madison http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2003/05/reviving-the-serial-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Hugh Madison Fri, 23 May 2003 05:30:34 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=453#comment-85 For people who have a tendency to write draft after draft but never actually send anything to a publisher, serialization is a remarkable experience. Those daily deadlines really change the way you think. And building a fan base, however small, was stunning. Sure, I hoped to attract readers but it wasn't until those first emails started to arrive that I realized I could get to know the fans personally, read and sometimes use their plot ideas, and even find them proofing my work for me. Weblog serialization has a lot going for it. Hugh American Invisible For people who have a tendency to write draft after draft but never actually send anything to a publisher, serialization is a remarkable experience. Those daily deadlines really change the way you think.
And building a fan base, however small, was stunning. Sure, I hoped to attract readers but it wasn’t until those first emails started to arrive that I realized I could get to know the fans personally, read and sometimes use their plot ideas, and even find them proofing my work for me.
Weblog serialization has a lot going for it.
Hugh
American Invisible

]]> By: John Scalzi http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/2003/05/reviving-the-serial-novel/comment-page-1/#comment-84 John Scalzi Wed, 21 May 2003 21:26:26 +0000 http://www.tenreasonswhy.com/weblog/?p=453#comment-84 To clarify: Agent to the Stars isn't actually a novel I serialized; I just put the whole thing up. However, I did serialize another novel on my Web site last year -- Old Man's War -- and the results of that were pretty nice: I sold the book to Tor, which will be publishing it in hardback in 2004. To clarify: Agent to the Stars isn’t actually a novel I serialized; I just put the whole thing up. However, I did serialize another novel on my Web site last year — Old Man’s War — and the results of that were pretty nice: I sold the book to Tor, which will be publishing it in hardback in 2004.

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