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Originally Posted by Richard Herley
Ben, I read J A Konrath's post and he makes it clear that he owes his success to having started in print. He also says he can write four books a year, which does make me wonder about the quality (I've never read him).
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Nor have I (yet - I've downloaded a freebie). The point was that he seems to have found a model that works for him.
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So, the thing is, am I nuts or does anyone out there think this could provide a new way for writers to work?
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FWIW, my view is, this won't work. I don't think that it has mass appeal, and what you want it to find some way of getting a lot of people to pay a bit of money. I don't mean that you couldn't make this process interesting, just that you won't pay the mortgage with it. You should only do it if you want to do it as an experiment in ways of working - i.e. not for the money.
One model that might work, I think, is one which gets people coming back for more, paying a little at a time, with the first fix for free. It's reminiscent of the 19th century authors churning out what is now literature in instalments. If it was good enough for them?
Whatever you end up doing - good luck with it, and more power to you for persevering after the b*stards left the honesty box empty!