I've had a chance to upload a couple more stories to my fiction website; an old story, "A Cold Night for Drowning", and a very new one. I guess I've got the usual qualms that other writers have of putting their work on the internet - does it somehow downgrade the work? is there any kind of audience for it anyway? will it negate a chance to have these things published in the future? I'm relatively relaxed with old stories - they've either been published in small magazines that have long disappeared from anyone's reading lists, or have become "published by default" through having been sat around so long.
With "Life Grabs," I've published on the internet a very new story, partly because it reflects some of the debates about surveillance and identity that I was mentioning recently in another post, and partly because I want people to read it.
I think it will be a little rare for me to post newish stories on here, as ideally I'd still like to get them published in "respectable magazines" (whatever that means), but I'm not adverse to doing it now and then - particularly where the story illustrates a particular point I want to make, as in this case, both about the subject matter, but also about the process that takes an idea I've got and turns it into a story.
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That's very intersting. I wonder the same things about stories posted on the internet. I'm planning on writing a paper about it, which I why I find your blog fascinating. You're really asking all the questions I'm wondering about.
I think we all just have to try it and see - there's not really a Youtube for fiction is there, yet? But as people start using iPhones and Sony Readers and Kindles more and more, surely they might start downloading fiction to read alongside their newspapers etc.
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