I hope that title was inscrutable enough. NaNoWriMo is the National Novel Writing Month (November). The deal is that you write a novel with a length of 50 000 words. That’s it. You can post excerpts to your account that you set up at nanowrimo, and you self-report the words you’ve written. It doesn’t have to be pretty or coherent. It just has to be 50k words. It’s all about karma. Now blogger has decided to add to the mix by encouraging users to sign up at nanowrimo and to use blogger as the text editing tool.
Which could be somewhat of a windfall for Blogger (google). If I were running things I would archive all of you, sort through the messes, back the horses most likely to win, and parlay this mash of words into a publishing proposition. Start a whole line of digital products: GoogleWares, which would include GoogleBooks. Even more interestingly, share ad revenues with the authors whom Google promotes, since to read the texts you’ll have to go through Google. So, you’ll have a bunch of authors who will never be printed, but by virtue of having been vetted by Google, they will see some revenues by people clicking through on the ads displayed with the novels. Imagine a knife murder scene, with an AdSense ad on the side for Henckel knives.
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