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Blovel (a portmanteau of ''blog'' and ''novel'') is a novel created from serialized blog posts. This differs from a blook, which is a published book that has been made from, or inspired by, blog content. With a blovel, the story is created in and for the blog. It may later become a blook, should the author or a publisher choose to combine the posts into a single publication,〔Powell, Julie. “Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.” Little Brown, 2009. ISBN 978-0316042512〕 but it is primarily a work of fiction created using the technology of an internet blog. Various writers contemplating blovels have laid out some criteria for blovels: * Posts should be 250-500 words in length. * Posts should end in cliffhangers or at least with suspenseful elements that keep the reader wanting to read the next days’ post. * Post should be posted regularly, typically every 1–3 days. * Readers should be allowed to comment on the posts. * Authors should create the novel online through the daily posts and not simply cut and paste already written novels into blog posts. * Blovels should be shorter works, typically 40,000-60,000 words in length. * Blovels should follow the same pattern as novels with a beginning, climactic conflict, and dénouement or resolution. * A blovel should run for no more than one year. ==History== The term “blovel” was coined in January 2006〔Miller, Maurine. “Ana Marie Cox wonks, snarks, and, um, blovels.” The Yale Herald, January 13, 2006〕〔Argetsinger, Amy; Roberts, Roxanne. “Wonkette’s Sex Change.” Washington Post, January 3, 2006 〕 in relation to the blog “Wonkette” by political blogger, Ana Marie Cox,〔Cox, Ana Marie. “Dog Days.” Riverhead, 2007. ISBN 1-59448-232-2〕 who wrote a novel based on Wonkette called “Dog Days.” Janet Maslin, writing for the New York Times Book review (January 3, 2006), wrote: ''“And ‘Dog Days’ is predicated on the thought that it is a short leap from a blog to blovel.”''〔Maslin, Janet. “A Blogger Creates a Blogger for a Trip Back to 2004.” New York Times, Books, January 3, 2006.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blovel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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