Conversation

Then there's the class of "web serializations"—books which started as a series of blog posts, or online fan fiction chapters, which were later serialized into "real" books. Those often lose something in book form, since they weren't "designed in one piece," lack a coherent whole.
2
5
Why aren't there more? Well, if you *want* to write a web-first book—again, not even a fancy new-media thing, just a book whose text is online—there's no quick consumer-grade solution. Spin up Ghost and write some HTML, I guess. Or elaborately theme a Wordpress?
2
12
This Tweet is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
That's a fascinating medium. The "documentation portal." Mainly characterized by nonsequentiality, I think! There's structure, but it's not narrative structure. Many people writing great stuff in this medium these days—it's lucrative, I guess!
1
2
Show replies
Replying to
💯 poignant guide is the best website + best programming guide. it showed me how you can explain even complex concepts using characters and storytelling, and continues to inspire me to this day. i’m hoping to build a guide as part of an upcoming project following its example