Hatrack River Writers Workshop: Story Telling On The Internet

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Posted by Chshell (Member # 2215) on :

I'm experimenting with a new form of story telling on the internet.

Deanna's diary, the tale of a young woman who fashions a flicker of hope from the dark fabric of her own despair, is out there on the world wide web.

Read it at WWW.DEANNASDIARY.COM

Please follow this experiment closely, share your thoughts with me. The technique has just been born (screaming and kicking) but should it survive long enough to grow to maturity we may never need an agent or a publisher again.

Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :

I doubt it'll replace books. There's something missing there.

But, in the mean time, have you seen this? http://guystuff.oilies.com/chapters.php

Posted by Khyber (Member # 1651) on :

If you produced a novel in a blog-esque way like these... would it be fair to try and market this novel(after your own editing) or are first-rights technically already published on the web...

Posted by Jules (Member # 1658) on :

First rights are gone. But that doesn't mean that there aren't publishers who'd be willing to consider it anyway...

Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :

It has to be substantially changed from what you printed on the web for the first rights to still be available.

Consider it self-publishing when you put stuff on the web. There are publishers that may be interested in taking something that has been self-published, but the only cases I have heard of that actually worked involved material that had been self-published in small print runs in hard copy.

Self-publishing on the internet means that millions of people can read what you wrote. In that case, publishers figure that there's not a large enough market left for them to make any money by printing it in hard copy.

So it's not just that first rights are gone, but the market is used up, too.

[This message has been edited by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (edited November 08, 2004).]