Try Something New
Feeling stagnant? Need to try something new? One possibility you may wish to check out is WEbook.com, a project-based system that encourages small contributions with a one-thousand-word limit per piece. You can use it as a project system for building a novel or nonfiction book, open it up for comments, even allow multiple contributors to write pieces of the project.
I spoke with one WEbook user who noted that the idea of being able to contribute small chunks encourages the act of writing, “and it is dead easy to just bash out 500 words or so in Word and then just paste it into the editor.”
From the site:
WEbook is a revolutionary online book publishing company, which does for the industry what American Idol did for music. (Modestly speaking, of course.) Welcome to the home of groundbreaking User-Generated Books. WEbook is the vision of a few occasionally erudite people who believe there are millions of talented writers whose work is ignored by the staid and exclusive world of book publishing. It just makes logical sense that if you create a dynamic, irreverent, and open place for writers and people who like reading to meet, write, react, and think together, the results are bound to be extraordinary. Cue WEbook.com, an online publishing platform that allows writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators and others to join forces to create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children’s books and more.
There’s also a lively community with discussion groups, message boards, and more. Check it out, and you’ll be … beyond the elements of style!
Posted in About Writing, Creativity on April 16th, 2008