Fiction Update
I'm releasing the remaining chapters in my novel because I want you to have a better reading experience
Over the last several months, as I’ve been serializing this novel about surveillance in the modern workplace that many of you have been reading, I’ve had a realization:
I don’t like reading serialized fiction.
It’s hard for me to stay engaged; I forget what happened in the previous chapters; it doesn’t allow me to keep going if I want to read on.
In the end, I decided that reading fiction like this just wasn’t working for me. And if it’s not working for me, why should I expect it to work for you?
So I’m making a change.
I’m putting the remaining chapters of my story up on my Substack Fiction home page and I’m linking them below. If you like a chapter and want to keep going, you can follow the <Next Chapter> links included at the beginning and end of each chapter, or you can return to this table of contents if that’s easier.
Basically, you get to read as fast or as slow as you want. I’m hoping that some of you will get caught up enough in the narrative to rush to the end—I know that at some point, that’s what happened to me.
Please note: If you’re a person who only reads their Substack subscriptions in your email, you’ll either have to change your ways and go to the website or the Substack app or just stop reading. I hope not the latter! Please let me know though and if there are enough of you, I’ll figure something out.
Chapter 17: Stamper Takes an Override
Chapter 18: Cascade Reviews the Data
Chapter 19: Friction
Chapter 20: Verbal Override Requested
Chapter 21: Bury These Friction Reports!
Chapter 22: Swale Canyon Showdown
Chapter 23: Shut This Down!
Chapter 24: Party at Dan’s House
Chapter 25: Two-Way Door
Your thoughts and observations are always welcome, either in the comments section or via email.
Very cool! I’m a fan of this approach. I also hope that one day Substack adds like an “undistracted reading feature” to their app so that we can load a book in and read it more like an e-reader.
Also, if I wanted to share your whole book on Substack is there a link for that? I’ll add it to my Part2 on Serial Fiction post that I’m working on.
I plan to sit down and start reading today... no need to wait... only binge reading 🔥
After our discussion, I think you picked the right approach. I'm in agreement that it's become hard, if not impossible to read serially. There are two serials I have in my saved list now that I hope to get to, but I might wait until they're done to do so.