A Million Penguins

Penguin Books, in collaboration with the Creative Writing department at De Montfort University in Leicester, England, is sponsoring a collaborative novel writing project that uses mediawiki software (the software that powers Wikipedia) and a number of authors to create a novel.

To my eye the site is chaotic and the bits of novel that are posted are sophomoric--stuff you would expect from undergrads playing along with their prof's pet project. We will just have to wait to see how it turns out.

For a statement from the project organizer on what they are up to, click here.

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