Websites are starting to emerge to cover the growing trend of
blog fiction. Blogfic.com, which has links and resources about blog fiction, says there are two kinds of blog fiction: character blogs and serialized blog fiction. We have already discussed character blogs on BloggersBlog.com and you can read our past
coverage of character blogs here. Character blogs are written by real people pretending to be a character, such as the
Moose on the Moosetopia blog
or Up and Onward - the
confessions of a Super Hero.
Serialized blog fiction uses
the blog format to tell a story or novel. Authors can spread
the story out over multiple blog entries to try and build an
audience. FictionBlogs has a running list of blogs publishing fiction. Stephen King was one of the first to try serialized fiction online with his horror story called The Plant.
Readers paid $1.00 to download each installment of the story.
An article about the launch of The Plant in 2000 can
be found here.
Using a blog would probably be much easier than having readers
download each new installment. The Guardian had an
article about serialized blog fiction last year. The
article notes that one problem with blog stories or novels
would be that readers might arrive at the middle or near
the end of the story. However, a fiction blogger could probably
use cookies or logins to make sure new readers did not end up
reading the end of a story or novel first.
