Built of Rag and Bone

The W.O.O.F. Contest (Writers Offering Our Finest) is a weekly contest held by PlotDog Press. Submissions can be anything from original creative writing to photos and artwork about writing, so long as it’s original work, has to do with creative writing, and was posted on your blog within 14 days of the deadline for submissions. The participants then vote for that week’s "Top Picks." The poem I entered in the contest for April 10th made the list of top picks!

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I consider myself fairly involved in web fiction, as people go. I remember coming across Tales of MU when Alexandra Erin was still trying to make enough money to quit her day job. I remember starting my own webnovel and talking with other webnovelists about the emerging medium, how it was gaining readers and coming into it’s own as a viable vehicle for fiction. I remember people saying it wouldn’t last, that no one wanted to read fiction on the internet—we didn’t listen to them, but they were saying it.

Now, with the plethora of mobile web browsers and devices like the Kindle, electronic fiction is one of the fastest growing markets, causing some proponents of traditional publishing to ruffle their feathers and get all huffy. Well, the sad news is that e-books, while closely related to webnovels, are not webnovels. This big boom in things like the Kindle and iPhone book apps does not bode well for web fiction writers such as myself. Then again, it doesn’t bode too badly, either.

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Just play around with the video thing, see how it works, upload an armpit fart vid and put startburst wipes on it, do whatever makes you happy. [ HIT 'UPLOAD' TO ADD CLIPS and 'REMIX' TO SCREW EM UP ]

A little later on I’ll actually type up a quick guide to the video thing, but I have to run to a meeting and I wanted to get this up sooner rather than later.

Edit: Okay, I did something silly… this thing is fun.

This one is just a bunch of random things thrown together to give us something to mess with.

Apparently I’ll be able to embed a video straight from my webcam, and then you guys can respond to it in kind. Even edit it as a sequence or some such madness. Let’s see…

Well that actually works pretty well! I need to trim my beard and I look tired as hell (probably because I am), but I think this is gonna be fun.

Please don’t hesitate to record your own responses. Or just try it out… say hi. Whatever. I may do a more meaningful one of these in the near future. We’ll see.

So MeiLin Miranda is on a brief hiatus from her webnovel An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, and put out a call for silly guest-content, including Intimate History related LOLcats. Naturally, I couldn’t resist.

Go read her story, it’s damn good. Go on, I’ll wait.

Join it! Yay social networking!