Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016)

Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by ElFitz on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:28AM (#27894937)

I think the future for this is online publication. On a personal blog, or a shared website.

A bit like stories such as Sherlock Holmes’ were initially published in episodically in newspapers.

Many platforms now offer subscriptions options, so it definitely could work.

That still leaves the discovery & editing issues though.

Any thoughts on that?

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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by FalconSensei on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @05:07PM (#27899349)

In the west this is still growing, but in Japan at least, it's way more common, at least regarding 'light novels' (kinda of like YA?). I'm not sure about earning money through subscriptions, but there people who write to those sites (similar to Wattpad) often struck a deal with a publisher to adapt the 'web novel' to a 'light novel'[0]

Edit: I know that for webtoons (korean comics) subscription is turning into a reality, at least in English markets. Not sure about how's it in Korea though

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/LightNovels/comments/6hgw1w/konosub...

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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @06:40AM (#27904518)

That’s how Andy Weir did The Martian. It’s also how Isaac Asimov wrote the first two or three Foundation novels.

The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis) were done that way.

Lots of prior art. Also, it makes the books easier to read.

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