PCKWCK is the World's First Live-Streamed Novel
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One male writer is re-imagining Charles Dickens for the digital age, and he's doing it online. Live. Joshua Cohen, American novelist and author of Book of Numbers, began writing on the 12th October at 1pm EST, and is writing for five hours a day every day of this week. PCKWCK is a modern day adaptation of Dickens' serialised novel The Pickwick Papers, and will also be illustrated by Leon Chang in similar real-time fashion.
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The inspiration for the innovative new mode of writing came from the video game live-streaming service, Twitch, as co-founder of Useless Press Alix explains:-
I love how it transforms this essentially solitary and repetitive act — playing a video game — into a spectator sport. The work of writing is similarly solitary and repetitive so I always wondered, What if there was a Twitch for novelists? Would anyone actually watch someone write fiction?
The answer to that appears to be yes. I have to admit, there is something perversely interesting about invading a writer's privacy. Writing a novel by more traditional means is a prospect that fills me with terror, let alone having my work scrutinized by the online world as I write it. You've got to give it to the guy - pretty ballsy. Cohen even freely admits that he doesn't expect the work to be "very good". Having read excerpts myself, I think he's been a little modest.
As you could expect, much of the live chat is nonsensical and has little to do with the novel whatsoever. The US President did turn up to throw in some kudos, though...
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If you are eager to see the man at work, you'd best hop to it. Once the novel has reached completion at 6pm EST on Friday, it will disappear into a cloud of virtual dust until the novel is printed later this year. Find it here.
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