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This looks interesting. I wonder if it will have any influence on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) Link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ http://www.nanowrim

by nyellin 16y ago

This looks interesting. I wonder if it will have any influence on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month.) Link: http://www.nanowrimo.org/ http://www.nanowrimo.org/ On a slightly different note, I did NaNoWriMo this year with a friend. I would have loved a way to quickly give/get live feedback with my writing partner. If there was a community of other writers who also wanted to take part, that would have been incredible. I suppose that I could have used Google Docs, but something geared towards writers would have been amazing.

msiedlecki 16y ago
I actually looked into nanowrimo before beginning development on neovella, and it seemed like a great idea. Neovella is a bit different in many many ways, though. Nano even says they want "quantity, not quality". I don't see why you really have to make a compromise. People will write if it's social and fun--my goal is to make it just that, but I do have a long way to go. As an externality of multiple authors, the potential for creativity is hypothetically very high, possibility for writer's block very low, and the capacity for quality work (by a different definition of 'quality') seems to be there too. Why keep writing as a monthly thing? It can be fun!
bmelton 16y ago
I started TypeMotion a couple of years ago for that very purpose, but I never promoted it (even to friends / family) because I wanted to wait until 'before NaNoWriMo' to announce it, and completely forgot the next year. Then, I decided to rip the guts out of it because I decided that the pinnacle of what I wanted it to do looked exactly like the comments on 'djangobook.com', where user-contributed edit suggestions sit right in the left margin, represented by little bubbles -- then something else came along and my pet project got discarded. :-\
jdp23 16y ago
Agreed, a friend of mine and I both did NaNo this year and there were plenty of times when we would have loves something to give/get live feedback on sections.

by nyellin 16y ago

msiedlecki 16y ago

I actually looked into nanowrimo before beginning development on neovella, and it seemed like a great idea. Neovella is a bit different in many many ways, though. Nano even says they want "quantity, not quality". I don't see why you really have to make a compromise. People will write if it's social and fun--my goal is to make it just that, but I do have a long way to go. As an externality of multiple authors, the potential for creativity is hypothetically very high, possibility for writer's block very low, and the capacity for quality work (by a different definition of 'quality') seems to be there too. Why keep writing as a monthly thing? It can be fun!

bmelton 16y ago

I started TypeMotion a couple of years ago for that very purpose, but I never promoted it (even to friends / family) because I wanted to wait until 'before NaNoWriMo' to announce it, and completely forgot the next year. Then, I decided to rip the guts out of it because I decided that the pinnacle of what I wanted it to do looked exactly like the comments on 'djangobook.com', where user-contributed edit suggestions sit right in the left margin, represented by little bubbles -- then something else came along and my pet project got discarded. :-\

jdp23 16y ago

Agreed, a friend of mine and I both did NaNo this year and there were plenty of times when we would have loves something to give/get live feedback on sections.