Blog Fiction Gets Media Attention

Posted on May 3, 2005

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 several character blogs on Bloggers Blog. 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.

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.

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