Would a Blog Novel Work?

Would it? Something like a serialised magazine story but in much shorter episodes, a few hundred words may be the digestible most on the Web. Could a story advance sufficiently in this space, enough to keep the reader coming back? A job for tight writing or excellent descriptive/dialogue passages.

A 21st-century Dickens might have written this way. Perhaps the format suits soap opera, which on television has largely sated our appetite for drip-fed stories. The written word may not be able to compete.

The Web has a couple of advantages. It‘s easy to bookmark a page to resume a story at leisure. And why stick to a linear narrative, one page following another? Separate threads could develop sub-plots, maybe by other writers, all collaborating to weave a huge tapestry.

I may give this a whirl and resurrect any one of: my (badly) written novel; or two other stalled attempts. Just the exercise of tightening them up would be a boost.