Blovel?

While surfing the net (well, letting twitter do most of the work) I came across the term ‘blovel.’ Seemingly it’s a cross between a novel and a blog in which the ‘chapters’ are posted in a blog like manner over a relatively short period of time. The ‘blovel’ site that I encountered this new concept on restricted members to posts of under 1,500 and required new posts to be added within a frequency of one per week (to a maximum of 40 posts.) The result would be a full blovel of 60,000 words written in a max of 40 days, impressive. 1

Now I wonder whether this is any different to writing on AllJournal’s sister site StoryWrite? I’ve always felt compelled to keep my posts on SW short andsnappy so that the reader’s attention isn’t given time to wander. Perhaps I should start my own blovel over there?

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