Loading... Why do you publish serial fiction online?

Fiction is my favourite topic... to read and to write. I have sooooo many stories that I have composed since I was 10 and I have never shared it with anyone except my mother. She gives me feedback but I decided finally that I wanted feedback of other people, who don't know me (therefore there's no bias to contaminate the feedback).

That's why I decided to post fiction serials and so far it has been very rewarding. It can also be very stressful, however. There's A LOT that goes into even a pre-Hub-written story.

Actually I have only placed two items of flash fiction on HubPages and found the result of one to be encouraging, whilst the other was not commented upon at all.

I use other websites to post my fiction, as being a beginner in the art of writing stories, I find it an excellent place to hone one's skills. The feedback is just what an aspiring writer needs to practice the craft of writing.

Sadly, that doesn't mean I'm getting any better at it however, but you never know, one day perhaps...

Many things made me decide to put it up. The biggest reason was that it was easy to post something that was already written, instead of write something new.

So far, my experiences have been mixed, and to fully explain, I will be writing a hub. For now, it is an experience that I think all writers should have. I have some cautionary words for you, but also some encouragement and tips.

Have just done so, and it is for the feedback, an unbiased response. If none, then it wasn't even worth a comment presumably, and certainly you have not achieved a willing suspension of disbelief and desire by a reader to know what else will happen to your characters. We'll see how it goes. The Prologue section to my novel was read quite a bit before I pulled it, but rarely commented on, I'm guessing no one read it to the end, they certainly weren't speechless with awe. :)

So it's informative, I think, I hope. But also perhaps risky, as one person has pointed out, the actual premise or idea, the essential plot, can easily be hijacked once put out there on hubpages, happens in the poetry hubs all the time.

I have been writing screenplays for about 20 years while being a divorced mother of two boys and working 50-60 hours a week... time was not readily available and so the mantra was "when the boys are grown and out of the house". This eventually happened, but instead of writing I was working more. When I lost my job four months ago the writing flood gates opened... interesting note; my sons and I bought a three-flat in the city and are renovating together... I found HubPages and my fingers haven't stopped dancing in 8 weeks.

My latest script is ready to hand-off to Ron Howard and rather than move on to the rewrites required elsewhere I write 8-10 hours a day on hub pages.

And then all of sudden, I had this idea to try my hand at a novel, on hubpages... I don't know where the idea came from because writing a novel has always scared me... screenwriting was a natural fit, but 400-500 pages of deathless prose sent shivers up my spine. But somehow, breaking it down to one good page at a time was not as daunting.

Also with hubpages, you have 159K potential critics on stand-by with a click of the "publish" this key. Immediate feedback is incredibly powerful and empowering. One good comment and the second page is written... then the third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh.

I'm not saying I'm Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway or a 21st century Mark Twain, but my colloquial style of simple stories feels comfortable... one page at a time.