Sun, 20 Apr 2003
Writing in a goldfish bowl
Back in the 1960's and early 1970's, Harlan Ellison used to sit in
a bookshop window with a typewriter, writing science fiction stories.
Call it a kind of performance art.
Well, the web offers a whole new venue for performance art, and Cory
Doctorow and I are pleased to announce
our latest collaboration. In the wake of Jury
Service and Flowers
for Alice, we're working on another collaboration, this time
for a forthcoming anthology, ReVisions, a collection of alternate
science-history stories, that DAW
books will publish at some unspecified date TBD. And the collaboration has a blog: Unwirer.
Yes, you read that right. We're collaborating on a story in public, via
a weblog. What you'll see is what we write, as we do it.
The last draft posted to the blog will be the draft that we send to Isaac
Szpindel and Julie Czerneda,
the editors, and it's likely that we'll do some rewriting after that,
so there's a near-certainty that the published version will differ from
the text we come up with on line. But what's going on in the blog is
the real thing -- it's how we're collaborating on this story. As Cory
is mostly in San Francisco and I'm in Edinburgh, we can update it
from our respective home towns and use the various topic areas to disucss
where things go next; stuff we used to have to do in email. And because
it's in a blog, you get to say what you think of it.
Unwirer is our very
own shop window or goldfish bowl. Come watch the authors at work! And
tell us if you like it -- or not.
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