Enough of this practical advice of which program is available, free, good - I wanna know what you would prefer to write on, provided it were possible. Smoke signals, skywriting, tattoos...
For me, I'm holding out for the cyberlink into my brain that will let my thoughts flow out into a continuous stream of data that a reader can pick up and become immediately immersed in my world, sharing my thoughts and feelings as I lead them through a story.
What are YOU waiting for?
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http://robbietaylor.net
25,200 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 06 13
I would become a tattoo artist and write my novel on people. And then it could be like an art exhibit.
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oct. 9, 2009 - 12 32
I'd write my novel in the ground with a stick or in grass with a lawnmower. Imagine looking at it from above!
As for the former, you could write it out as you go across a country. Now that'd be a story to tell.
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http://www.sushimustwrite.com
52,065 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 13 46
I would put parts of it on RFID Tags and spend the month travelling though Germany or the UK hiding them somewhere so that any reader would have to take the same route I did with a certain device and go on a scavenger hunt.
----------'8: Interface Culture - Selbst die Zukunft ist nicht mehr das was sie einmal war (won!)
'9: Ytin'he'ny - those who are changed
Bottles of Coke: 18 (29.5 liters)
Bags of crisps: 7 (705g)
Back up your novel, now!
40,040 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 16 43
I would write my novel on birch bark. Lots and lots of birch bark.
0 / 50,000
oct. 9, 2009 - 17 25
Been working on building a 1-handed chording keyboard that I can mount to my steering wheel, so I can take advantage of my 1/2 daily gridlock
----------36,000 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2009 - 05 51
I would write it on white walls, covering an entire room in it. Or on fabric. I think a wearable story would be interesting, and now it has me wanting to write a short story specifically to put on a dress.
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oct. 10, 2009 - 08 30
I would totally write it in blood on sheepskin if I could. Failing that, creating it part by part on road signs on a continental trip.
----------I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
0 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2009 - 10 33
Some people email themselves their novels. I would telegraph myself.
IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT STOP
AND THEN SUDDENLY WEASELS FROM OUT OF NOWHERE STOP
52,540 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2009 - 13 18
I would carve it on the face of Stone Mountain... so it could then be illuminated by the laser show during the summer.
----------Heather Dudley
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A Dragon Writes
102,107 / 50,000
oct. 10, 2009 - 13 53
And that'd give me a real reason to go there because I've never been to the actual mountain. Clearly I'm a bad Georgia resident. ----------
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http://www.sushimustwrite.com
52,540 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 07 26
And that'd give me a real reason to go there because I've never been to the actual mountain. Clearly I'm a bad Georgia resident.
Dude, you have got to go. the laser show is awesome, particularly at the end when they complete and animate the carving!
----------Heather Dudley
Forums Moderator
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A Dragon Writes
32,272 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 07 44
I'd find some way to solidify clouds, then write on them with huge letters, so wherever people went they would be looking up at the sky and reading my story. It would make for some very interesting accidents. ^_^
----------31,393 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 08 20
I'd use a laser to write on the moon. So that all astronauts in the future can read it. And stargazers with really good telescopes. Although I may run out of room on the moon. I may have to continue on like... mars.
----------2007 - Tarian - 20k-ish
2008 - Jeu de Role - 53k - WIN.
2009 - Chance?
150,500 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 08 34
I would write it with permanent coffee stains in coffee shops all over the world!
----------ML for Quebec City
NaNo '08 - The Spirit Sword - 64,038 words, finished in May.
Frenzy '09 - Vie Publique - 101 pages.
35,300 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 08 36
I'd like to go off & write my novel in someone's crops, like some sort of novelist alien :]
----------38,338 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 08 58
Hmmm. Think I'd write it on ceilings. ^^
----------nano 2oo8 - drawing the line - 51,000/50,000 {won !}
nano 2oo9 - switching skies - 0/50,000 {need a better title !}
25,159 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 09 00
I'd like to write it on a transparent sheet attached to a big searchlight, so you could project it into the sky like the Bat-signal.
Failing that, I second Reverend Robbie's cyberlink.
----------When your inner editor says that your writing stinks, tell it: "Yeah, so?"
Of course it stinks. That's why it's called a FIRST draft.
42,723 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 09 01
Hmm... this is a great question.
----------I would write my novel all over a skyscraper, and to get to a new chapter, you'd have to take an elevator up a floor.
23,346 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 09 04
On really delicate, old paper with a quill. Bound in leather. Yeeeeaaah.
Or maybe hieroglyphics. Hmm. I'd have to learn Egyptian though. And how to chisel.
29,084 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 09 14
Dude. That's, like, sacreligious to Jackson
8,440 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 09 40
With pee in the snow. It's gonna take a whole lot of beer.
----------"To get the word down proper, that takes courage, seeing the form, living the life, and getting it into the line." -- Charles Bukowski
50,000 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 10 11
I'd write it on all of the desks in my school. Especially those really painful ones in the health classrooms where the desk is attached to the chair. That way, instead of just drawing rude drawings on the desks, those students who aren't paying attention will read my novel instead.
----------Everything that happens in Nanoland, stays in Nanoland...unless it's published.
52,778 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 10 16
I would write out my novel on some big flat surface... in human hair.
XD
OR I would carve it all over trees so the readers would need to take a walk through the woods to read it all. Aah... fresh air, some exercise, AND a great novel! What's not to love?
----------2007: The Regency Street Book Club - realistic fiction 50k/50k
2008: Indigo - fantasy 58k/50k
2009: Witching Hour - YA
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies." --Adrienne Gusoff
43,061 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 10 30
I'd just write on the air. If I'm outside, then people could read it while walking along the sidewalk. When I get blocked, then I could read old pages backwards; that should get the juices flowing again.
----------Only when men are connected to larger, universal goals are they really happy - and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. - Joyce Carol Oates
21,613 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 11 03
I would love to write my story on a strand of DNA. This would totally be possible because of all the different sequences and combinations of the components that make up DNA. Not to mention that the amount of information that you would be able to fit on such a thing would be enormous. Just think of all the information that it takes to create the human body. That and you could put your story in something as tiny as a bacteria and then keep your own "mini" personal library at all times. Pretty conveniant isn't it? I'm a little fuzzy on the details because I've only read something about this being possible once, but I think it would be pretty awesome.
----------2008: The Blade's Hand -- completed
2009: The Riddled Path -- in progress
15,156 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 11 37
I just like the white walls idea. I think it would be awesome if a whole novel were to be written on the walls and ceiling of a single room. In fact, I'm so tempted to do that now.
Other than that, I'm not feeling too imaginative at this moment, haha.
40,001 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 11 41
I would write mine on a roll of toilet paper. So you have to unroll it all to read the story.
----------2007: Distant Memories Burned - FAILED
2008: And Sometimes, the Dragon Wins - WIN
2009: Burn - DETERMINATION
26,845 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 11 52
If I could, I'd handwrite it with a quill on old paper, too, but then I'd never be able to read it. And where would the backspace button be? XD
Better yet, a huge holographic screen attached to a type writer that would allow me to click on the screen to see the part of the novel as a live-action film. With a fast, if not non-existent loading time while we're at it. And other touch-screen capabilities like touch and drag to delete parts, and writing scribbles on the sides. This big screen can also act as a video-capable telephone, and internet service. Oh, and it's free for life and works beautifully. :D
Barring that, a cyberlink like thing that streams scenes into a real-life action thing. With the ability to become part of the story, uploaded into being characters or something would be pretty darn fantastic.
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oct. 12, 2009 - 12 16
I'd write it on a car, or carve it into a forrest of trees. :]
20,040 / 50,000
oct. 12, 2009 - 13 12
I'd write it in gasoline all over a hillside (or twelve), so when I'm done I could light it on fire and people in planes could read it.
----------You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury