Writely recognition

Wasn’t aware of this, but when browsing through the Writely blog, I found this snippet of a press release: Since its beta launch in August 2005, Writely has enjoyed enthusiastic adoption from users all over the world including businesses, bloggers, editors, students, teachers, poets and playwrights. … Case#3: NaNoWriMo Collective Novel Creation By midnight on … Keep reading

Glypho

Glypho appears to be a site offering collective authorship. It looks quite interesting, but at a guess I would say the quality of writing is probaby variable…

NaNoWriMoSest

Everyone has heard of NaNoWriMo, the web-organised novel writing sprint, which involves writing 50,000 words to get a novel finished during the month of November. It sounds like madness, and it is. What’s the point of it? Well, part of the idea is that the quality of what you write isn’t all that important. It’s … Keep reading

Detectulative

deteculative Originally uploaded by John Self. Excellent stuff from the Selfmeister Click the image to see a bigger, clearer version.

New Parsnip at last

Yesterday I finally got round to writing another piece of Parsnip, the thoroughly inept fantasy author. They raced through the arid desert land which was what Zamora was comprised of, mostly. There were some nice bits but they were all on the coast. The two intrepid mercenaries had to go as fast as possible. They … Keep reading