: Re: Interactive feedback - is it a good idea? I am writing an adventure story, adding one chapter weekly. This is the third story posted on that specific site, and I have followers, some of which

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Interactive feedback can be great - ask Arthur Conan Doyle or any other great serial writer - but you'll want to be fairly thick skinned, particularly if you're posting on the internet.

Interactive feedback on your story is one thing, but what you're suggesting later in the post sounds more like writing by committee. It's a valid thing, but if you go that way you'll have to recognise that it's no longer your story. Worst case, some of your readers will be more upset when the story goes the way other people suggested - a problem that wouldn't have come up if you'd made it quite clear that you were the one telling the story.

I've never tried anything like that, but I like to think of my relationship with my writing being that of a benign dictator (though sometimes I'm not sure which way round).

Someone will always complain. The choice here is whether you want to be a driver or a passenger.

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