Problem:
Do you consider yourself a creative writer but can't quite find the time? Tired of scribbling away all day by yourself? Still working on your first novel, that you started ten years ago?
Smart Solution
Taking cue from Wikipedia, Penguin Books as yesterday now invites writers, editors and readers to collaborate on an "experiment" in creative fiction.
According to Reuters:
"British publisher Penguin may have the answer - a web-based, collaborative novel that can be written, edited or read by anyone, anywhere thanks to "wiki" software, the technology behind web encyclopaedia Wikipedia.
The novel, A Million Penguins, went live on Thursday and its first lines are already being written, edited and rewritten by enthusiasts on http://www.amillionpenguins.com.
Penguin, which embarked on the project with a group of creative writing and new media students, says it is using the novel as a test of whether a group of disparate and diverse people can create a "believable fictional voice".
"This is an experiment. It may end up like reading a bowl of alphabet spaghetti," Jeremy Ettinghausen, head of digital publishing at Penguin UK said, adding there were no plans as yet to publish the completed work.
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