What are your favorite (preferably single-author) sites that are presenting stories / a novel / thematic essays?

August 16, 2004 2:50 PM

Interesting online writing projects.... ? I'm thinking about tackling another (large) writing project via the 'net. What are your favorite (preferably single-author) sites that are presenting stories / a novel / thematic essays? I'm not really looking for blogs, but (maybe) serial pieces presented in blog format. Anyone doing / done this with success? (I'm sure there are a gazillion really bad ones out there...)
posted by dobbs to society & culture (8 comments total)

Fray?
posted by ChasFile at 3:22 PM on August 16, 2004

Imaginary Year, from our mefite pal jbushnell.
posted by judith at 3:40 PM on August 16, 2004

I can remember She Hates My Futon [first chapter here, the rest ???] and Toothbrush Envy which I think appeared on the ratbastard's [Don's] site before it was on fray but I can't find it now. And of course, the chapters in the meandering story that is part of ftrain. The city stories projects took off a while ago but seem to still be going somewhat
posted by jessamyn at 3:40 PM on August 16, 2004

maybe ftrain, the very best writing on the web. just about.
posted by Marquis at 4:15 PM on August 16, 2004

heh, don't laugh, but Monster Island just wrapped up and I found the serial format lended itself to the story quite well. (It's a zombie story set in New York and not your typical semi-literate fanfic. I actually stumbled across it through a text-ad on the Blue.)
posted by keswick at 5:11 PM on August 16, 2004

Orion's Arm is pretty massive and impressive though far from the work of one person.
posted by billsaysthis at 6:09 PM on August 16, 2004

Thanks, all! Hadn't heard of a bunch of these.
posted by dobbs at 9:26 AM on August 17, 2004

AfterDinner. And Maggie Donea had a project, Colors/Rainbow, years ago.. Lance Arthur had glassdog.net, but still does stories out of Lance Arthur dot com, where as it happens, you can find links to other writings on the web. And then there is the self link where I was writing a novel, Roseland, that has been sidetracked.
posted by rich at 11:24 AM on August 17, 2004