Notes"Ever since Gamer Theory we've been thinking about how to design social environments for texts that aren't as conveniently hyper-structured as McKenzie Wark's."Unfurl
Notes"It seems the writing totem was a big source of support for participants in this year’s NaNoWriMo and from this post in the forum it helped a lot of people achieve their target."Unfurl
Notes"There has never been a time when more people were reading more words by more authors. The Internet is a literary world of written words. What a fine thing that is for writers."Unfurl
Notes"WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, WriteRoom is just about you and your text."Unfurl
Notes"The purpose of writing prompts is to give yourself ideas to write when you don't have any - either to start off a short story or to get yourself unstuck in the middle of a story when you don't know where to go."Unfurl
Notes"The networked book is here: the new agora/plaza/forum where author, publisher, and readers congregate to ponder, discuss, joke, enjoy, and refer."Unfurl
Notes"It seems like it’s been forever since I stopped at an abnormally long traffic light in my hometown and wondered why the internet has daily blogs, daily webcomics, and no daily fiction."Unfurl
Notes"Cat hoovering (also Cat vacuuming) - 1. any excuse to avoid writing, even vacuuming the cat (Gerri); 2. A pointless exercise used to avoid real work."Unfurl
Notes"Conversation, not content, is king. If you were stranded on a desert island and you opted to bring your records instead of your friends, we'd call you a sociopath."Unfurl
Notes"It's simply three sets of square brackets. The first set denotes deletion, the second set denotes addition, and the third set denotes a comment."Unfurl
Notes"This list of fictional expletives contains expletives invented by writers of fictionoften science fiction or fantasyto add nuance to the fictional cultures in their work, and sometimes as a form of censorship"Unfurl
Notes"I finally got everything into a single archive in an open, stable format... and just 3 short years later, Apple found a way to screw me one last time."Unfurl
Notes"My CD-ROM is accessible only to cranks and connoisseurs, members of the "dead formats society" who've invested in the dead tech required to play it."Unfurl
Notes"I have come to view Tinderbox as a three dimensional writing tool. I can work using its basic functions one day, then dive into its more diverse functions the next to examine my thoughts and ideas from many different angles."Unfurl
Notes"By federal law, I am required to inform you that by stepping outside of these doors, you are releasing the federal government from liability for your safety."Unfurl
Notes"After a quick back-and-forth, we came up with the following capsule definition: "a networked book is an open book designed to be written, edited and read in a networked environment.""Unfurl
Notes"They have a plethora of writing utensils, cards, stationary, and Sanrio-like gifts. I adore their notebook section. It's definitely worth a look through if you're into that cutesy stuff."Unfurl
The "Verbs Bad" Manifesto