US: LA Times gives readers chance to become published authors through a novel collaboration
Posted by Carolyn Lo on March 25, 2008 at 10:18 AM
Steve Lopez of the LA Times is inviting readers to help him write a serial novel. His column in next Sunday's paper will be the first chapter of "Birds of Paradise: A Novel Collaboration." Readers will write the following chapters with a chapter a day appearing in the Times and on the Times's website into the L.A. Times Festival of Books on April 26 and 27 at UCLA.
Each day, a panel of judges will pick the winners, who will be invited to the book festival to read their chapters.
This "novel collaboration" is a good example of participatory media by engaging readers into the writing process, though the content is not exactly news worthy. Not only does it encourage quality writing, but also provides more incentive for people to pick up the Times to see their/friends'/family members' writing in print.
For contest rules and more information, go here.
Source: LA Times
Each day, a panel of judges will pick the winners, who will be invited to the book festival to read their chapters.
This "novel collaboration" is a good example of participatory media by engaging readers into the writing process, though the content is not exactly news worthy. Not only does it encourage quality writing, but also provides more incentive for people to pick up the Times to see their/friends'/family members' writing in print.
For contest rules and more information, go here.
Source: LA Times
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