so i have been rereading bleak house & also rewatching the incredible bbc miniseries & for the first time it occurred to me to look up dickens’ work history. did you know after all of the dickensian child labor in factories etc, he was a journalist? of course newspaper journalism was different back then, because newspapers were the fastest way to get words in front of a broad audience, so any types of words that want to get in front of people fast, were doing so via newspapers. so at first he was doing stuff that would seem like journalism to us, reporting on civil court cases. but after maybe four years of doing that, his journalism started to consist of stuff that would look less like journalism to us, & more like posting.
Definitely plenty of people advocate for tight feedback loops being a big key to skill improvement.
Also Doyle published Sherlock Holmes chapter by chapter (/short story). (And then he killed Holmes because he was fed up with it all; and then audience backlash made him bring Holmes back lmao. Stuff of legends!)
Oooh I read my first Dickens novels last year (Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol) and I love him now. I didn't even know about his own child labour experience, but that makes a lot of sense. I also appreciate the idea that all this posting hasn't been a waste of time for those of us who potentially want to write novels. I think the episodic/serialized novel idea you mentioned here and I've seen you tweet about is a really exciting idea. Can we get everyone doing this? I hope you do itttt
Definitely plenty of people advocate for tight feedback loops being a big key to skill improvement.
Also Doyle published Sherlock Holmes chapter by chapter (/short story). (And then he killed Holmes because he was fed up with it all; and then audience backlash made him bring Holmes back lmao. Stuff of legends!)
Oooh I read my first Dickens novels last year (Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol) and I love him now. I didn't even know about his own child labour experience, but that makes a lot of sense. I also appreciate the idea that all this posting hasn't been a waste of time for those of us who potentially want to write novels. I think the episodic/serialized novel idea you mentioned here and I've seen you tweet about is a really exciting idea. Can we get everyone doing this? I hope you do itttt