Thread: The Online Writing SubForum

For want of a better term.

This discussion area was setup toallow discussion, reference and resource sharing about the new wave ofwriting online. "WebLit" "On line Literature" or "WebFiction" or "BlogLit","bLit" or even "Twitterature" refers to writing presented on theinternet for reading on line. Call them "wovels" or "blooks" if you like... the important thing is immediate reach to readership.

The use of blog software to drive regular episodes of a novel, often delivered by RSS subscriptions, has become a powerful tool for reaching readers, "shaking down" novels in progress, building a fan base.

Somecategories include blog-written serial novels, hyperliterature orhypernovels using the unique nature of weblinks to direct or sequencethe reading, poems and fiction done on Twitter or other similar sites.

Discussions here can include anything from mention of ongoing projects to resources such as blog software, feed engines, WordPress themes and plug-ins, or problems peculiar to writing, promoting and monetizing web-based literature.

Hope to see you, and your work, as this forum grows.

Indeed. I'm just preparing to serialize a novel...in fact, I'm possessed of enough hubris to serialize the first draft shortly after I've written each section. I'm very interested in other folks' experience with such. During the period 1998-2002, I featured an interactive novel on my webspace. Identity Crisis it was called. Characters in the novel had their own email addresses, websites, and virtually separate identities. It was wildly successful as such things go. Too successful-the 300 or so readers a day kept me so busy playing each part that I had little time to do anything else.
And the only publicity it ever had was a small mention on the website briefme, the equivalent at that time of places like stumbleupon.