Archive for the 'writing process' Category

Archived Post: Which CC License? Terms and Conditions?

Before we get started, Chris and I need to figure out what kind of Creative Commons License we want to use for this project. We also need to figure out what kinds of Terms and Conditions to ask contributors and participants to sign up to. Here’s the page that describes the six types of cc [...]

Where the idea came from

I read this article, ‘The Man Who Fell To Earth’ back in 2001 and have been obsessed by this story ever since.

Experiments in Monetisation

One of the problems facing all writers who work in digital and multimedia projects where, to date, content has been available for free over the internet is this: how to make money from the creative use of new media. One of the aims of our other on-going project ‘Inanimate Alice’ is to find a [...]

Creative Crowdwriting: The Open Book

This week Wired is reprinting a selection of Assignment Zero stories on the topic of “crowdsourcing”. Assignment Zero was an experiment in open-source, pro-am journalism produced in collaboration with Wired News. Today’s chapter - The open book - discusses “A Million Penguins”.

Cities at Night

I wrote this piece for the Guardian - ‘The City is Mine’. As a result, I received a number of very sweet e-mails from people with their own memories and thoughts about walking through the city at night. It strikes me that this is ripe territory for fiction, for ‘Flight Paths’ in particular, [...]