The true Global Novel

ATP · Sep 19, 2005

What happens when 14 writers from 12 countries agree to collaborate and write a novel together? - "Global Novel", that's what.

GN is "a story filled with action, passion and gore, ...and peppered with plot turns and cliffhangers at times so improbable that the reader begins to suspect that the writers involved were trying to undermine each other's efforts"

Read the full story at IHT.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/18/features/novel.php

ATP

Garpy · Sep 20, 2005

Whilst it's nice that a bunch of people from different nations can get it together and work collaboratively....I think I'll give the book a miss. It sounds like it's going to be a very chaotic, messy read.

oswann · Sep 20, 2005

Garpy said:
Whilst it's nice that a bunch of people from different nations can get it together and work collaboratively....I think I'll give the book a miss.

A bit like some reactions to the UN. "Hey it's cool you're all working together, but I'll pass and do whatever I want..."

Did I say something bad again?

Os.

Jamesaritchie · Sep 20, 2005

Novel

oswann said:
A bit like some reactions to the UN. "Hey it's cool you're all working together, but I'll pass and do whatever I want..."

Did I say something bad again?

Os.

Well, I'll admit, that's my reaction to the UN, and to this novel. After reading about it on the link, it sounds like all the other novels I've tried to read that were written by groups of writers. . .chaotic, uneven, and not worth the trouble. It seems to me that good writing seldom comes from gimmicks or committees.

oswann · Sep 20, 2005

I also admit the optimum number for a committee to make quick decisions is ten with nine absents.

Os.

three seven · Sep 20, 2005

ATP said:
What happens when 14 writers from 12 countries agree to collaborate and write a novel together? - "Global Novel", that's what.

GN is "a story filled with action, passion and gore, ...and peppered with plot turns and cliffhangers at times so improbable that the reader begins to suspect that the writers involved were trying to undermine each other's efforts"

So... Atlanta Nights then, but not as funny.

The true Global Novel

ATP

What happened to my LIFE?!

Garpy

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oswann

Grumpy

Jamesaritchie

oswann

Grumpy

three seven

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