So apparently I hit on a pretty damn good idea last night with opening my google docs draft for review and posting the link on twitter. For some reason this was hailed by a couple of medium-size writer feeds as an "A+ use of social media" - I just saw it as a way to keep myself honest and working. I did have a lot of fun explaining my method and process as I worked - it made me aware of the myriad decisions and reference materials I use while crafting a story from whole cloth. It was also awesome to have a chat room of audience members ready to offer suggestions when I got stuck.

That being said, would y'all like to be informed when I do this again? I was thinking of creating a super-keen little image I could post in my subs to let everybody know I'm hard at work. Considering that I plowed through 2000 words in about an hour under the scrutiny of a crowd this is definitely something I'd like t continue. I'll for sure be drafting my next novel this way.

Also, does anybody know of a good way to set up a live audio stream on the side? I thought about livestream but really want to drive everybody to the doc as it keeps all chat data with the document.

BTW: you can read (and leave comments!) on the new draft here even when I'm not around: https://docs.google.com/document/d/.....WNzbXlKTg/edit