Wednesday, September 12, 2012

I'm Not Going to Try This, Myself

Fantasy author writes her novel ‘live’ with the Internet reading over her shoulder | The Raw Story: Fantasy author Silvia Hartmann is opening herself up to the kind of scrutiny most writers would pay to avoid: this morning, she started writing her new novel on Google Docs, and you can see it taking shape word by word as she types.

3 comments:

Greg Daniel said...

Guess this is the interwebs version of Harlan Ellison writing stories in a bookstore window or on the radio.

Deb said...

As Truman Capote said of Jack Kerouac: that's not writing, that's typing.

lastromantic49 said...

Interesting. The latest F&SF issue has a short story with a very similar scenario. Didn't work out well!lol