[cmsefton]

> For fiction, however, the dream combination is probably publishing in-progress with subscriptions

As someone who likes to write fiction myself, the idea of publishing in-progress feels incredibly alien. Typically, if I finish writing something, it's a first draft that I would revisit a few months later and rework. How are authors handling this aspect of wanting to re-edit if they're publishing chapters on the go? I seem to recall Stephen King describing locking his manuscripts away for six months before revisiting them. The in-progress model seems to work against this type of workflow, or are there ways of dealing with that?

[inglor_cz]

This was incredibly common back in the early 1900s. Whole books were at first published in one-page installations in newspapers. Including the most famous Czech novel, Good soldier Švejk.

Prior to the advent of radio and TV, this was the best way how to hit a huge audience at once. And for the newspaper, it was a way to entice people to buy the next issue.

[Joker_vD]

That was also common in the XIX century as well: that's how Alexander Dumas and Charles Dickens were published.

[webmaven]

> That was also common in the XIX century as well: that's how Alexander Dumas and Charles Dickens were published.

It wasn't exactly uncommon in the early XX either, during the "Golden Age" of SFF:

https://www.andrewliptak.com/blog/2015/01/22/the-history-of-...

[cmsefton]

Right, so it's basically serialisation. Interesting, I always saw serialisation as releasing an already finished novel bit by bit, but just reading about the history of serialisation, it seems that was not always the case. Thanks for giving me the pointer.