Ilia
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I am an avid reader myself, but it is hard to find free time. I mostly read technical books these days, currently Cocoa Programmers for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass, excellent book. Other days when I do have a spear 5 mins I usually go the www.slapastory.com (sorry for the plug). Its one of my little startups.
This is an interesting site, and I think may benefit my startup users. My site slapastory.com is a social site focusing on writers, I would love to cross link with you?
Let me know.
Thanks for the advice, I will be in touch with NaNoWriMo people see what they say.
Thanks Again
Definitely will be in the next release.
Wow, this is fantastic, we are working on some of the ideas you mention, the others we will need to add to our list.
Thanks heaps and keep them coming.
that is somethng to think about. Not sure how writers will react to 140 words thought. Also do mean characters, right?
definitely, let me know and I will put your link on my site.
Firstly, thank you for your honest feedback.
Writing sites do need self respect, and this is the reason that we have developed this site. I am personally a developer and an avid reader.
Although it may seems like a ripping of Digg - digg doesn't have a fiction category or any sub-categories that we have included.
In terms of layout we didn't want to get too creative, but we do want to make it as simple on the eyes as possible - so our priority at the moment is to style the stories.
Again thank you for your feedback.
Thanks, search is coming... but you can filter by user by clicking on the username in the user "cloud"
You are right, at the moment we are trying to build a mini community of writers. Mostly this was a request from a few friends of mine that are avid writers. We just want to see how far this can go. Any exposure for them is good. Maybe we can even get publishers on board.
You never know until you try it.
Thanks for that... you are too excited... any feedback that we can actually use?
Thanks qhoxie, the site is still in beta and design is always under question..
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated
Interesting idea.. like the design, not sure about using pligg though, had some bad experience with it, but good luck with the 30 day mark, it sounds like a plan
resently I released
http://www.fictionthis.com/ - "allows you to share ideas and have unbiased input into creating a published work of quality fiction. This open project was developed for inspired members of our online community to create their own version of the story and to rate their fellow authors."
I thinks its a great idea, but traffic has been slowly disappearing.. feedback anyone?
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Ilia on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @02:37AM
from the self-post dept.
I have a new site fictionthis.com, which is intended as a social community driven (read web 2.0) site. I am trying to promote it as I think it can be quite interesting, but I am having some trouble doing it, if anyone has some suggestions please reply.
Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it
Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately since we are just starting and are working a shoe string budget we had to manage with the design, I do take on board the feedback and i am currently changing the content and some styles that do have some rough edges.
We are also in talks with different publishers to get the book published once its complete .. that was the initial idea.
It has a similar idea..although I haven't seen this before. What we are planning is to concentrate on one book. There will also be time periods for each submission.
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Ilia on Friday April 18, 2008 @01:07AM
from the self-post dept.
Hi, Some friends and I are really interested in writing so we tried to find a site where we can write together to create a book, and vote on each others work. After looking around we found that there wasn't much choice on the net, so we decided to create a site - http://www.fictionthis.comIt is currently in beta at the moment and we are in the process of selecting the opening verse of the...