I’m in.

Granted, I put this chance on the same level of probability of our molecules just winking out of existence, but that’s just me.

One day, you’re getting published, so I think your idea of Progress/Snippets is the best course of action.

I’ll most likely post progress reports, word counts, things about the characters or scenes, maybe snippets here and there if there’s a line I really like.

However, actually publishing as I go, nope, not if it’s something I might want to get published eventually. Posting a work-in-progress is, technically, publication.

You know how sometimes magazines will publish the first chapter of a book just before it arrives in bookstores? That magazine bought first serial rights — the author got paid for that excerpt. So even if I just toss up the first couple of chapters, I’ve now deprived myself (or, y’know a future agent) of the ability to sell that first chapter to a magazine/website/wherever for first serial rights.

If I publish the whole thing, even if I polish it and change things up later, it can hurt my chances of getting it published when it’s actually ready, since that story already exists in some form or another on the internet.

I’ve toyed with the idea of doing a kind of internet serial, along the lines of what Scott Lynch is doing with Queen of the Iron Sands, but I’d probably want to set up another section of this site for it, rather than collect it in blog posts, make it more professional-looking, I guess. Also, I’m not nearly confident enough in my abilities — Scott Lynch can do it because he’s a damned good writer and has the fanbase from his Gentleman Bastard series cheering him on. I’m just this dabbler, you know? I’d like to be able to make money off of what I write, but I don’t know that I’d feel okay throwing up a tip jar for it while it’s in Nano-wreck stage.

I might write it in gdocs, and can grant a handful of people access that way, though that’s something I’d have to do more thinking on. I know there are a few people who can be reading as I type and it doesn’t bother me, but they’re also the people who are most familiar with my style, who will end up reading things in rough draft form anyway.

Which is my usual rambly way of getting to the point: definitely progress-type stuff on here, but probably not the actual full story.