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I think writing a novel on Github is a fascinating idea, if people can read your revision history and see the entire evolution of the text.
by zachalexander 14y ago
I think writing a novel on Github is a fascinating idea, if people can read your revision history and see the entire evolution of the text.
- albanlv 14y agoSilvia Hartmann is exploring the idea of allowing the reader to follow the creation of a novel by writing on Google Docs. you can follow her on real time here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwxZlO1uVnFFKh_NWAlZ78oK2c5gxzvVCfrYbe7EOE8/edit?pli=1#heading=h.f0dths2bdy48 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AwxZlO1uVnFFKh_NWAlZ78oK... With Github we can add to this the revision history plus branching, forking... I think we can go beyond the idea of a novel as a unique finished version written by a unique author. Novels could be as open source software : you don't have a finished product, but versions, and you don't have an author, but several contributors.
- runevault 14y agoBack when I used vim for fiction writing, I also used to use mercurial (this was several years ago so git on windows wasn't worth the hassle) so that I could track history as well as so I could back it up by keeping my repo on another computer. It was an interesting process. I should probably see if git or mercurial diffs work on rtfs now that I use scrivener, since part of the appeal is being able to track changes.