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What's an MVP for a novel? I can sort of see it if you're writing a technical book, but not for fiction. Maybe doing short stories to see if people like your ch
by weeksie 13y ago
What's an MVP for a novel? I can sort of see it if you're writing a technical book, but not for fiction. Maybe doing short stories to see if people like your characters? Even then, you're not guaranteed to get the right people reading.
An indie author is _definitely_ an entrepreneur, "measure-and-learn" is not applicable to novels (making the article a bit nonsensical for NaNoWriMo).
- DigitalJack 13y agoThat's basically what Hugh Howey did. His short story "wool" took off and so he focused his efforts on that story line.
- spatten 13y agoTwo ways to do it are short stories or serialization. If you look into how Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, they definitely had a feedback loop going.
- ryan_twinlabs 13y agoI think what others have posted about serialization, character pieces, or short stories are all ways novels can make sense of the MVP concept of lean. There are also sites such as Wattpad that allow the author to publish as they go and get crowd feedback. They can then rework sections based on how fans react to characters, story arcs, etc.