[SKRIVA] Figment - nätverk för online-författare
- From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:09:40 +0100
Figment kallas ett nytt "nätverk" för online-författande och nya författare
(finns på http://figment.com) startat i USA.
"Figment is a community where you can share your writing, connect with other
readers, and discover new stories and authors. Whatever you're into, from
sonnets to mysteries, from sci-fi stories to cell phone novels, you can find it
all here. Sign up Today, it's free and easy", står det bl a.
Låter litet som www.kapitel1.se i Sverige (som dock kom tidigare!) Man har redn
blivit omskrivna i New York Times kanske beroende på att en av grundarna har en
bakgrund på NYT):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/books/06figment.html
Figment.com will be unveiled on Monday as an experiment in online literature, a
free platform for young people to read and write fiction, both on their
computers and on their cellphones. Users are invited to write novels, short
stories and poems, collaborate with other writers and give and receive feedback
on the work posted on the site.
The idea for Figment emerged from a very 21st-century invention, the cellphone
novel, which arrived in the United States around 2008. That December, Ms.
Goodyear wrote a 6,000-word article for The New Yorker about young Japanese
women who had been busy composing fiction on their mobile phones. In the
article she declared it “the first literary genre to emerge from the cellular
age.”
Figment is an attempt to import that idea to the United States and expand on
it. Mr. Lewis, who was out of a job after Portfolio, the Condé Nast magazine,
was shuttered last year, teamed up with Ms. Goodyear, and the two worked with
schools, libraries and literary organizations across the country to recruit
several hundred teenagers who were willing to participate in a prototype, which
went online in a test version in June.
“We wanted people to be able to write whatever they wanted in whatever form
they wanted,” Mr. Lewis said. “We give them a piece of paper and say, ‘Go.’ ”
He added that so far contributions had included fantasy, science fiction,
biographical work and long serial novels. “There’s a very earnest and exacting
quality to what they’re doing.”
--Ahrvid
Ps. Men tyvärr har man nog mest nytta av detta på det angliska tungomålet.
Inget att göra något åt. Vi får hålla oss till SKRIVA.
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