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  • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Sometimes they do. Dickens and Tolstoy wrote and published serially. So do an awful lot of fanfic writers in the present day.

    • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      And then there was the weekly Dracula thing popular on Tumblr a few years ago where they take a non serialized novel (as far as I know) and split it up based on the dates of the correspondence within, going a level further than serialization and delivering the story “real time” as the letters and newspapers were sent/published in the story.