This is going to hurt a bit

The How Novel tour of The Forty Watt Flowers is not just a series of blog posts. It is serial fiction. That is, fiction written and published one chapter at a time.

Traditional books are plotted as a whole, with multiple drafts and input from editors, readers, agents and others. When a reader opens the book, the story is polished from front to back. It is a static world you enter into.

With serial fiction, each chapter is written as an independent unit. It makes for a more flexible story, but it also has a raw quality, an immediacy. It is an ever-moving world.

With that flexibility comes greater challenge. I've decided to spread the story out across venues (Medium, Facebook, Twitter, website) to provide a multi-faceted view inside the world of these characters. Updates will come weekly.

Written down like that, it's terrifying. Have I created an opera?

Wish me luck.