@Chris: Thank you for your kind words. I’m not particularly sure if Novelr will be in the centre of it all, like you said (we are, after all, only a tiny part of a larger movement) but I guess only time will tell.

@Janoda: I’m glad you like the new look. I’ll be looking into your point about the Contact form as soon as possible (though probably after I smooth out the more glaring bugs in the new design – for instance, cross browser functionality is a little off on some of the pages) – but you’re right. I should make it easier for you to share.

@Sebatinsky: =) I hope you’ll restart your reading again – it’s always good to have a reader talk about the medium, as opposed to us usual bunch of writers.

@Gavin: Yeah we’ve got hockey too! (Though I doubt it’s as big an obsession as in Canada – our hockey is really badminton). I think all of us agreed with the predictions you made in your post, though none of us could’ve anticipated the speed and degree by which those things came true.

@Miladysa: Good to hear! (And it’s Malaysia, btw, hehe). It seems that Malaysians really do blog a lot. Talk about repressed personal expression coming loose on the Internet, and we’ll probably come to mind.

@Ace, Morgan: thank you so much.

Please keep up the great work. I’m new to the world of web fiction and find myself learning a lot from your posts. Looking forward to more insightful articles.

I appreciate the problems bloggers can face in Malayasia, I have quite a few blogging friends there and now I am wondering if you could be one of them in disguise LOL

Good luck with the future plans :D

I think it’s very cool that you’re from Malaysia, that’s the last thing I would have guessed — primarily because you and I seem to have similar thought processes and I’m Canadian.

Do you guys even have hockey? ;)

Hey, what are the chances my predictions would have been right? How weird is that?

Love the new look.

I’m looking forward to a more regular update schedule, though I can promise no such thing from my blog :(

Since this seems a fresh start, I’d like to propose a suggestion. Since Novelr is all about building community, it seems strange that the community can’t share amazing websites they wander upon because of the html restriction in the contact form. I do understand why it is there, and don’t desire a change there, but I’d still like a little website suggestion box. I have no idea if this is possible design wise, but if it is, and can be maid spam safe (maybe with ReCaptcha?), that would be great.

Today I discovered Oneword.com, which is a beautiful initiative, and has some pretty beautiful prose on it. My first thought was that it should be on Novelr, so other writers and blookers could enjoy it too.

Besides all this I’m looking forward to all the new and/or rewritten content that is upon us.

Kind Regards,

Jan.

I am excited about the new changes to Novelr; it seems as if you have streamlined the blog, defined its goals and its purpose, and thus can focus on the lively, informative, and interesting articles that draw this community together. Congratulations on the fund raising. I had no idea that so many people were visiting and donating to Novelr.

What happens here will influence and possibly shape the future of online fiction. By anticipating technologies and trends, by responding to social media and web development, and by participating in the dialogue between writers and publishers, Novelr may very well see itself at the center of a digital publishing revolution.

Chris A.