Comments on: Authonomy: Home for Writing Web Workers http://gigaom.com/collaboration/authonomy-for-writing-web-workers/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dawn http://gigaom.com/collaboration/authonomy-for-writing-web-workers/#comment-77044 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:51:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=4456#comment-77044 This reminds me of the online spec fic community — I can’t remember the actual name. It used to be sponsored by Del-ray and it’s basically an online crit workshop and community. I know that several new authors have found book deals through that site.

Having said that, I’m a writer and I’m not really interested in hanging on Autohonomy. Seems like yet another way to avoid writing!

]]> By: Barbara Saunders http://gigaom.com/collaboration/authonomy-for-writing-web-workers/#comment-77043 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:36:35 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.wordpress.com/?p=4456#comment-77043 As a writer, and a person with a long time dream to become an author, I have a theory about this. Writing, perhaps more than other artistic media, can’t be disintermediated.

I’m sure some writers will emerge from this tool, but …

I think most books are embedded in discourse. The whole agent-public-media-editor-publisher universe is a part of the discourse. Compare a guy standing out on a street corner singing a song and a self-published memoir handed out on the street corner. The question with the memoir, even if it’s well-written, often comes down to, “Where does this fit? What does it mean to me?” while the performance of the song stands alone.

The publishing machine adds something that I don’t think the recording company does.

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