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Writing Fiction Using SubEthaEdit
Phil Shapiro writes "The recent blizzard on the East Coast makes for some great collaborative creativity opportunities of various sorts, including group fiction writing using SubEthaEdit. Did you know you can write fiction about collaborative fiction writing using collaborative fiction writing tools? We didn't either." Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is some of the project plans created using SubEtha.
"national teaching award from Radio Shack" What an honor to win such a thing. What's next? Best movie award from /. ?
Man, the best fiction I've ever produced is some of the project plans created using SubEtha.
The greatest lasagne recipe I ever wrote was crafted in MS Word 6.0.
OK, OK, Courier 12 point, if you must know.
An excellent example can be found here.
The formula is as follows.
1.) Write article based entirely on misrepresented sensational claims about the end of the world.
2.) Get slashdotted
3.) Sell more ads for website based on high traffic volumes (use only averages when representing numbers to ad buying customers.)
4.) Profit!
best fiction ever!!!
Each new post describing a choice. How geeky...
/me ill-it-errr-it [enter]
You come up to the entrance to a crumbling dungeon, where the fabled ruby of souls resides. Rummaging around in your pockets, you fish out your trusty dagger. Well...dagger..ish. Ok, it's a butter knife. hopefully you can find something better. Looking up at the cavernesque mouth of the dungeon, a chill runs down your spine, and a small spider crawls up your leg. Ick! you quickly swat it, then ponder the situation at hand. a set of vines snakes all over the sides of the tower that overlooks the dungeon courtyard. you could probably get a good view from there. then again, it looks reaaaaaly high up, and you've been known to get dizzy on a stepladder. maybe it's best to just not know what's ahead...
Will you:
A: try to climb up to the tower?
B: press on into the dungeon?
C: Go home and have tea?
B: press on into the dungeon.
Being scared of heights, you choose to press on into the dank dungeon, smelling the foul nastiness that is this thing. You find a copper sword on the ground, bending it as you smash it dirt wall of the dungeon. "Eh, my knife is better than this piece of pooh." You open a nearby door, and watch a dog eating some gecko thing on the floor. You hear a message echoing throughout the dungeon: "Dog has killed a gecko." Upon approaching the dog, you notice some writing on the ground.
"I$ #ou c$n r!@ t#i@ &u% m$*t be sm@r$."
Do you:
A: north [enter]
B: write with knife [enter]
C:
A: Enter the area
You suddenly realize that you are in the middle of a NetHack game, and that the little dog is at least 5 times stronger than you. Frantically searching your pockets, you find something squishy. Aha! tripe, your favorite midnight snack. with a mighty heave, you lob the ball of smelly meat at the dog, which greedily devours it, then looks at you lovingly. Aww, how sweet, you made a friend. Now that you have a chance to search the room, which reveals a well-hidden, and very sturdy looking door.
Will you:
A: Open the door carefully?
B: Kick the door down?
C: Kick the dog?
C: Kick the dog
With a mighty hoof you poot the dog in the side of it's belly. For a moment it does nothing, before letting out a strange welp noise, then making a bolt for the door. It smashes it down, whining as it goes. You look on through the now defunct doorway to see a band of Half-Clay Superorc beyond, flattened by your pooch's charge. In the distance you can hear the mutt whining, surely far into the dungeon and out of audible reach. Walking into the corridor, you notice three exits. Which will you take?
A: North
B: South
C: Dennis
etc...
My internal English parser barfed on this sentence. WTF is the parent talking about???
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Lightweights! Real men use vi with LaTeX to write their lasagna recipes. Donald Knuth would be so proud.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
YES! Finally. Now we just need a game that is available for Mac and not the PC and the Earth polars will swap. Or something.
Mac users don't want their writing tainted by non-Mac users. And I agree.
The Bible. Council of Nicea, 300 AD.
It's been on the best-seller list for centuries. I filed my copy under "Historical Fiction."You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Sorry, but I have to disagree with you there.
The plot rambles, the protagonist is completely unlikable, the writing style is dull and repetitive, and it really bogs down in the final chapters.
www.lucernesys.comHorizon: Calendar-based personal finance
Same objection as the article link: the prose is stilted, the humor is inane.