Though it looks like a blog, it isn't. It's the manuscript of a book!
Vincent's posts are arbitrarily set in January 2000, and Bryan's in February 2000.
1 post = 1 (provisional) chapter (of a manuscript of a possible book). Posts will be continuously edited. Comments will summarise changes made. Date & time of comment will automatically indicate the date and time changes made.
We are really using Blogger as a platform for a special form of Wiki:
A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used collaboratively by multiple users. (Source: Wikipedia)
Added the words in brackets, and the paragraph referring to Wiki.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I'm here. So I gather that each post will serve as a chapter, and we can edit and expand and add to it as we go along. I got that part.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little lost on how rigging the date "preserves chapter order." Clearly I'm missing something there.
The important thing is the posting, and what I'm going to write about. Should I put chapter numbers in the post titles? Does any of this have to be in any particular order?
On to the subject matter. My plan with this is that I would be the "voice of reason" here, so to speak, defending the rational, logical, and occasionally scientific approach to searching for the truth about...well, everything. Should I just start working on this independently? Will this fit with what you have in mind? Of course, it's partly hard to say until we actually get into it.
I guess I'll just have to dive in with both feet and see how it goes.
If Chapter 1 is January 1, 2000 then Chapter 15 is January 15, for example.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, what I've set up so far has zero inspiration. My secret plan is to hope that good writing, inspired by the Muse, will make the point for me better than I, the conscious ego of Vincent, could ever do.
Will this ever work at all? Let us see.
The demands of small detail obscured the main point---that I'm so glad you are here, dear Bryan!
ReplyDeleteYes, do work on that voice of reason independently. It will certainly fit in.
ReplyDeleteMy own input may be fitful, fragmentary and ultimately indefensible. Who knows, yet?
Updated 10th August 2011.
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