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Question for the Book Board about a unique kind of book
Posted on 8/20/17 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 8/20/17 at 12:23 pm
I have a question that I'd like to get the opinion of the Book Board and all its wisdom.
I'm currently in the process of piecing together a novel. I know, like seemingly everyone else I have a word processor and know basic grammar so I think I can be a writer ha. It'll almost certainly be terrible, but bear with me.
I've got an overall outline or skeleton for the story and the characters, but certain scenes are sort of coming to me sporadically. I'm not sure if this is normal, but instead of sitting down and writing the story from A to B to C all the way to Z, I find myself writing A and then T and then J and then V and things all out of sequence like that.
The overall story is sort of a cop mystery story, and so my question is, would anyone find it interesting to read a disjointed book that I posted online as I wrote it, to the point where the act of reading it is sort of like a puzzle in and of itself? Eventually I would complete it, flesh it out, and release it as a single, cohesive piece, but initially I'd release chapter 1 and then chapter 28 and then chapter 5 or whatever and make that part of the fun. It seems like this would be a fairly cool thing that is possible only because of the internet.
Thoughts?
I'm currently in the process of piecing together a novel. I know, like seemingly everyone else I have a word processor and know basic grammar so I think I can be a writer ha. It'll almost certainly be terrible, but bear with me.
I've got an overall outline or skeleton for the story and the characters, but certain scenes are sort of coming to me sporadically. I'm not sure if this is normal, but instead of sitting down and writing the story from A to B to C all the way to Z, I find myself writing A and then T and then J and then V and things all out of sequence like that.
The overall story is sort of a cop mystery story, and so my question is, would anyone find it interesting to read a disjointed book that I posted online as I wrote it, to the point where the act of reading it is sort of like a puzzle in and of itself? Eventually I would complete it, flesh it out, and release it as a single, cohesive piece, but initially I'd release chapter 1 and then chapter 28 and then chapter 5 or whatever and make that part of the fun. It seems like this would be a fairly cool thing that is possible only because of the internet.
Thoughts?
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Posted on 8/20/17 at 12:49 pm to FootballNostradamus
It'd be interesting but seems complicated. I guess there's a risk that an early chapter will be spoiled by reading the later chapter first, or that the later chapter won't make enough sense without enough foundation, esp when introducing characters.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:03 pm to FootballNostradamus
You would definitely need to write it with that concept in mind. If you're constantly bringing up things from earlier chapters that haven't been released yet then when those chapters are released they'll be kind of boring, IMO.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:04 pm to FootballNostradamus
I think if you write a certain way, then write like that. If people don't like it then you know what you need to change.
Better to just do it than try and force yourself to write in a way you aren't comfortable with.
Better to just do it than try and force yourself to write in a way you aren't comfortable with.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 7:44 pm to cokebottleag
quote:Solid advice.
I think if you write a certain way, then write like that. If people don't like it then you know what you need to change.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 10:25 pm to biglego
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It'd be interesting but seems complicated. I guess there's a risk that an early chapter will be spoiled by reading the later chapter first, or that the later chapter won't make enough sense without enough foundation, esp when introducing characters.
Yea the interconnected tissue is going to be the tough part. I do think I can write some of the "action" scenes, release them, and then later release the scenes that got us to those points.
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If you're constantly bringing up things from earlier chapters that haven't been released yet then when those chapters are released they'll be kind of boring, IMO.
Yea it would definitely be a balancing act between what's left-out being something that the reader ponders and theorizes about vs making what they're reading boring because they have no context.
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I think if you write a certain way, then write like that. If people don't like it then you know what you need to change.
Always good advice
.Posted on 8/21/17 at 3:44 am to FootballNostradamus
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I'd release chapter 1 and then chapter 28 and then chapter 5 or whatever and make that part of the fun.
William S Burroughs did stuff like this. Read some of his works- it's difficult to stomach - for the technical analysis. The thing is, you have to write the book, then cut it up and harmonize it somehow. Burroughs was so doped up, I'm not sure he wasn't just getting high and mixing stuff around to mess with "squares".
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