How I Wrote a Novel In A Day
Last Saturday, the 15th of October, 2011, I participated in a 'Novel In A Day' project.
The idea is simple; a group of writers get together (mostly virtually) over the course of 24 hours and write a book. We were each given a writing brief at a set time and had to deliver our chapter within 24 hours. The participating writers were situated all over the globe and were also largely unaware of the plot of the wider story, as each only received a chapter brief.
All of this was organised on the Scrivener writer's application forum where the result was described as;
'reading of an event from many parallel universes; each one slightly (or way) different and you can only ever see one piece of time in each framework, with only hints of what the past and future might have been like, based on the other pieces.'
If you'd like to judge the result for yourself, you can get your free Creative Commons-licensed copy here;
(Also, if you use Scrivener and are interested in how this project was formatted and compiled, read this post.)
It was a lot of fun to do. Enjoy!
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Victoria is a scientist by day--reluctant writer by night, Clarion Write-a-Thon survivor, slush reader for Dark Fiction Magazine, and founder and editor of the 'of Altered States' anthology series.
Victoria has short fiction published in the upcoming City of Hell Chronicles and 100 Horrors anthologies. She's also writing her first novel; a tale of magical realism.
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