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Books / Teh Internets Twitter to "Write" the Next Neil Gaiman Story
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Oh, fuck: Galleycat says that Neil Gaiman will collaborate with the entire fucking internet on his next audiobook script.
The whole project starts on this Twitter page at 12 EST tomorrow (October 13). Gaiman will tweet the first line of a story, and the Twittersphere will add the next sentences, continuing the story in a round-robin style. To be included in the mix, your addition to the story must be tagged #bbcawdio and be sent to the correct Twitter page.
The story will reportedly be "edited." I would like to nominate that poor, nameless wretch of an editor for the next Nobel Prize in Literature if this thing winds up even halfway comprehensible.
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can't be much different than the usual crap gaiman writes. american gods is the most readable but still about 1/3 bad. tried reading stardust after absolutely loving the movie and couldn't get passed about page 40.
guy can do cool stories but can't write for shit.
guy can do cool stories but can't write for shit.
3
He works best with an artist. It will be interesting to see how much low grade porn involving the endless gets filtered into the story. =P
9
Is Neil Gaiman actively trying to use up all of his residual nerd cred?
At some point people are going to realize that not everything the man touches is automatically awesome, regardless of how much they like Sandman/Neverwhere/his blog/whatever.
At some point people are going to realize that not everything the man touches is automatically awesome, regardless of how much they like Sandman/Neverwhere/his blog/whatever.
10
This could be fun. In fact, if we all collaborate to set the story in a karaoke bar filled with Norse gods, it will be virtually indistinguishable from a typical Neil Gaiman story.
11
Sounds great! This is going to be my entry:
"Suddenly, all life in the universe ceased to exist."
Not sure where to go from there...
"Suddenly, all life in the universe ceased to exist."
Not sure where to go from there...
13
Hey wait a minute -- isn't he ripping off the Vital5 arbitrary grant in writing?!?
(I smell lawsuit!)
(I smell lawsuit!)
16
Gaiman is an arse. He still writes with all the depth of a 15 year old having his first wank. A little less time on Twitter and a little more time actually working on a second draft might help.
17
Gaiman haters, are, well, just a bunch of hateful hating haters.
Why not use Twitter? It'll just be another failed attempt at online, collaborative, interactive fiction. But that's no reason to not try. If it succeeds, it'll open up an entirely new medium for writing. That'd be cool.
Why not use Twitter? It'll just be another failed attempt at online, collaborative, interactive fiction. But that's no reason to not try. If it succeeds, it'll open up an entirely new medium for writing. That'd be cool.
18
I don't get it. It seems really obvious that they'll get 20 "second sentences" at once, and then 20 "third sentences" at once responding to several different "second sentences", and by that point all hope will be lost. That's what _always_ happens with these things. How can they not recognize this and figure out a system where that won't happen? Why do they think this will work?
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Neil Gaiman has frittered away what talent he had by subjugating it to the all-mighty dollar and his lust for publicity. The older Gaiman gets, the lamer his stories grow. Watch out when a writer moves from adult novels to children's books; nine times out of ten the adults aren't reading his books. The fact that Neil Gaiman is churning out creepy sex and gore books with fetish performer Amanda Palmer doesn't bode well either. Neil Gaiman just wants money and power for as little effort as possible.
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