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The Fiction Desk. Web Fiction Guide Forums. Blog Fiction. KristenAC the Maniac is the rhyming title for the personal blog of the fictional character Kristen Addison Craemer.

Blog Fiction

True to the title, Kristen is maintaining her electronic journal at the behest of her therapist. PlotThe blog started in January so it is fairly new. Therefore it’s hard to summarize the plot without summarizing everything. How to write a blog-buster. The weblog has justifiably been celebrated as a new publishing platform.

How to write a blog-buster

But writers are beginning to see that it also has the potential to be a new fictional form. This is one of the lessons of Belle de Jour, the much hyped "blog of a London call girl". The anonymous prostitute's diary is a familiar genre in erotic fiction, one that, in print, probably wouldn't float many boats these days. But via the blog form's sense of immediacy, Belle de Jour has revived the cliches so successfully that publishers are offering six-figure advances and journalists are desperate to find out who the real Belle de Jour is.