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Jun 2
The Birth of the Wovel

Kealan Patrick BurkeDo you realize how much your reading habits have changed?

Every day, I read a stack of newspapers and navigate through the work of at least five different writers, all without leaving my computer. We have this incredible interactive technology at our fingertips, and not enough writers make use of it.

Last week Underland Press launched a choose-your-own adventure for adults. Written by novelist Kealan Patrick Burke, readers will actually be able to steer this zombie action story every week.

I'll be reading, and it's a smart trick that might help more writers reach the vast webby masses. Check it out: 

"On Monday, the post goes up. Voting is open through Thursday. The author writes Thursday and Friday. The editors edit Friday and Saturday. The post goes back up on Monday. Part literature, part exquisite corpse. The pace of print journalism, the imagination of fiction, the spark of reader participation." (Thanks, Boing Boing)

 


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