Bad News Double Whammy for Blog Fiction Readers

This news is pretty old, but I've been out of the loop for a while.

Just when we were all getting ready to settle in with Wilf's first book, we find out his publisher has just gone out of business.

The slightly droopy news is that, The Friday Project has stopped being a publisher because it ran out of money. Even droopier news is that the money ran out before, 'Wilf's World' was made into a book.

I'm not sure of his plans or how this affects his timeline of when he'll be back or have a book published. I guess my eyes will have to get used to the computer screen if I'm ever going to read his entire blogposts.

Also, it appears that the very popular site Anonymous Lawyer has been hit with a bout of writer's block.

I wish I had more to say as this guy right now, and I keep hoping I can force it, and throw posts up there hoping it'll spur me to get back into the groove and hit some well for this character that I haven't yet explored. Obviously the biggest part of it is that I'm not working at a law firm, and so I'm not being hit with the ideas and inspiration I'd get if I were really living in Anonymous Lawyer's world. That's not an excuse, it's just an explanation. There will be more that I have to say as this guy, I'm sure of it, and hopefully some of you will enjoy reading it. It just hasn't been there while I've been working on some other writing projects, and it's been long enough thinking in this character's voice that maybe I've needed a bit of a break from it.

For a while very little was getting posted over there. Unfortunately this made some of his most loyal fans more than a little antsy.( see comments here and here for examples). I can empathize with both sides. As you can tell, it's launched a mini-controversy among his readership.

On the reader side, I do hate it when a blog or website I love goes AWOL. I hate not knowing whether or not a blog is active or not. As I've written before a writer should announce to his or her readers if there's going to be a temporary shutdown.

On the other side, I've now been blogging in some form or another for a year, I admit that life and writer's block happens. While a writer should let their readers know what's going on, this means that the writer has to face the fact that they can't do something that they love doing. That can be hard.

Ultimately, I think it falls on the writers of a website to let their readers know what's going on, but, I don't think asking for some understanding from your readers is too much to ask for either.