Stephen C. Rose

Read  Panflick 1/1 http://bit.ly/ni5iz On a hot August day, I drove from Manhattan up the Taconic. Contents: http://bit.ly/4POmR

First Panflick Cycle Complete: Twitter> #scr4

This means the following: Panflick refers to “The Complete History of Adam Panflick”, an online novel in progress. #scr4 is a hash tag. A hash tag is a convention used on Twitter. If you go to Twitter Search and type in #scr4, you’ll come — if you do it soon after this post — to a complete, sequential list of all the chapters posted thus far.

You can naturally find the same thing on the Panflick site Contents page.

But Twitter is my main source of traffic to the chapters of “Panflick”.

This blog now supports this process by providing posts which feature a link to each chapter and an excerpt or a reflection on the novel. These are published unter the hashtag #scr3.

This is all part of an effort to produce and promote an online novel. This is a completely different animal than a book. This novel is made up of short chapters that could perhaps stand alone. Each chapter is somewhat self-contained. The short chapters enable quick reads over time.

There is a way to interact via comments. These are moderated. I have met valued readers via this route.

The online format also permits publishing as we go. Harking back to a time when novels were serialized.  Eventually the novel will have over twenty Books and well over 200 chapters.

The “business plan” of such a venture depends  on returning readers being willing to contribute (donate) what would be a reasonable royalty were they to for kover the entire cost of a book. In other words, $3 to $5 online as opposed to $30 plus in a bookstore.

Advantages: Many more readers than most paper novels get. The creation of a model others can use if it succeeds. Control.

On this last, control, I fully recognize the value of an editor and this process denies me that privilege.  However, I see “Panflick” ultimately as a many-faceted project. It can, and perhaps will, become TV or film.  It may eventually be produced on paper. At these points, there will be plenty of editorial input.

At the end of such a process the text on this site will stand as what “Panflick” most essentially is — at least in the mind of the author.

Will I keep recycling “Panflick” on Twitter? Probably. Each day is an adventure in Twitterdom.  If you would like to follow this process, please be my guest:

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