Serializing a book on your own blog is useful if you want to build your own independent audience, particularly if you're self-publishing, but you have to do it right.
Well, I really don't plan to self-publish. However, I would like a place to post my fiction, like serial and/or to get feedback. The real issue is that I know I want to write but I just don't know if I'm "ready to publish". I don't know how to really explain it more than my writing doesn't feel like it's reached "that place". Now, I could be very well wrong. But I think I should have a little bit more practice to perfect my skills, especially since I've slightly changed genres since I've been here. I just kind of want to see how I'm doing I guess. It's hard to explain.
I screwed mine up in the beginning.
(Tip: Have the skin finalized and the links to subscribe up before you go live. Also: Don't use Blogger; you can't put the posts in reverse order, making it a pain to program a ToC.)
With your own blog, though, you have to get word out to others that it exists. (There are directories of web fiction that can help.)
With sites like FictionPress.com and FanStory.com, readers are already there, looking for things to read, so it's easier to find readers. (Tip: Make comments on others' stories.)
Well, the sites I'm talking are like that, as in the readers are already there. I suppose I would just use the blog to bring other people to see it I guess.
Truth be told, I don't even know if I'm making the right decision. It's like on one hand, I don't know if I'm ready to publish yet. I really want to perfect what I have, especially since I changed genres only a short time ago. I have to build some skills. Plus, on top of everything else, I kind of want to just fall in love with writing again. Just get to that place where the main goal was writing mostly I think, not what I was going to do once it was finished.
But I've also gotten a lot of advice telling me not to post anything as well, simply because I don't know when I could be published.
I really just don't know what to do.
Fictionpress was fun and I have some wonderful friends from there, but it's not really a tool for your road to publication, IMO.
I don't know if I'd necessarily use FictionPress but it is an option.