Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
A Writerly Kind of Social Media: Michael Siedlecki on Neovella
The blank page is the great adversary of many working writers. Turn on your computer, open a Word document, begin. With what? What are you supposed to write? Michael Siedlecki’s collaborative writing tool, Neovella, offers an answer. This online application lets you work with friends to collaboratively compose a novella. One writer begins the story, one adds a plot twist, one turns that plot upside down; gradually the paragraphs accumulate, building toward a full-length piece. In the tradition of James Joyce’s The Dead and Rudyard Kipling’s The Man Who Would Be King, the novella is part short story, part …
Code Meets Storytelling in iPhone App Machine #69
What do you do if you can’t finish your novel? Make an iPhone app. Writer Mark Wernham, author of the mystery novel-in-progress, Jefferson Greenspan Saves the World? partnered with chip tune musician Matthew C. Applegate (Pixelh8) to develop Machine #69, a collaborative story app that features photos by the author, narration by voiceover artist Dan Russell, and music by Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto and Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh. There’s even an “old” radio interview with the author. Mark Wernham plunges you into the middle of the action, introducing a time-traveling salesman, Jefferson Greenspan – who’s on …
