Story Blogs

The other day debut author Greg Fishbone wrote:

Story blogs. These are stories told in serial format on blogs. I've stumbed over two today, which means there have got to be at least 20,000 of them in hiding, assuming they follow the visible cockroach rule.

Tom Evslin calls his a "blook"--apparently short for "weB LOg boOK". Hackoff.com is quite an incredible production, including a wiki, a reader forum, a contest with prizes, and a faux website for the fictional company in the story. That's in addition to the comments, trackbacks, RSS, email subscription, and linkroll features you'd expect from from a blog. And the Cafe Press store. And the Javascript "blookmarks". All that and the project is still only in beta! The release blook will probably make radish rosettes, too.

Then there's Ray Rhamey, who calls his story blog a "story blog". It's not as fancy but does feature a vampire kitty-cat and is narrated in the first person. It's called "Death Sucks: On Being A Vampire Kitty-Cat".

Actually, of the two I'm more interested in Ray's because he claims to be making up the story as he goes along, bootstrapping the plot in front of a live audience. [story blogs]

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