It is fascinating that space fiction was inspiring the technological progress narrative for ~90y before Sputnik, and really boomed during a severe depression.
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Dickens serialized, Asimov serialized... good enough precedents for me. I doubt we’ll get back an era of golden age style magazines. That energy has moved to TV. But email newsletters. Hmm. Really tempting place to experiment with serialization again.
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I find I really can’t do more than about 15,000 words without a publishing feedback loop and I’ve decided not to fight it. The one long book I wrote without such a loop (Tempo) was based on earlier “serialized” academic work produced as talks/papers so doesn’t count.
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risk transfer: you write the whole novel on spec and pitch it to the publisher; only repeat successes get advances
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Fanfics and other non-published fiction have kept this model, and it seems to work well for them. All you need to do is abandon the dead-tree publication model.
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I was going to bring this up. Also web novels like what show up in Japan - and those have a regular route to being rewritten as (light) novels too.
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