I’ve had the idea for a while (and by a while, I mean years). There’s nothing new about blogging a book. Others have done it before me and others will do it after me.
But with this particular book, in my humble opinion, blogging it is the perfect medium. My one worry is having my material ripped off or plagiarized. That said, it’s a chance I’m willing to take.
With that, here’s my goal: blog one page (300 words) from the book each day. (Not on this blog, mind you. I already have the book blog set up.)
Since it’s a first person journal-style book, I must plan out how to display the content—basically, make it easy for someone just jumping in to read from the beginning.
Something else that just popped into my head is whether to allow commentary on the individual pages. On one hand, it can help me build a following and offer great feedback/direction, but on the other, it can adversely hamper my own creativity (and negative comments could just plain make me feel bad).
Then there’s the question of how to get it from blog format into edited manuscript format.
And, of course, I’ll eventually have to explain that it’s a work of fiction.
*sigh*
Enough yammering, it’s time for me to start doing. I’ll work out all those little details later.
# Project Amanda B’s Journal - Today, I Wrote… wrote on July 27, 2009 at 1:30 pm:
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