Writing live online

[Grinnel]

Is anyone watching this? She is writing a novel live and you can actually follow her stroke-by-stroke on the keyboard.

I make waaaaaaaay too many keyboard mistakes and immediate backspaces to put in a better word for this type of thing!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/...8oK2c5gxzvVCfrYbe7EOE8/preview?pli=1&sle=true

 

[Gabe.]

It's an interesting idea. I'm not one to watch somebody else write, though, when I could be doing it myself!

 

[Bowler1]

Ditto on writing myself.

However, when I tried to access the link I couldn't, because there too many people already viewing. So a good gimmick. It would never work for me. I can't see 000s of users watching me fuss over comma's - put one in - delete - move back a word - delete and put back and then change my mind and put in a full stop. Riveting stuff, eh!

 

[Ursa major]

You could fake it by typing into a file, clearing out most, though not all, of the typos (and the corresponding corrections**), and then feed the file, a character at a time (with a routine to vary the inter-character gap), to the live page. (You wouldn't be able to do this with a video showing your typing, obviously.)







** - The correspondence would be in the form of letters, I assume.

 

[Bowler1]

Sounds like a cunning plan to me!

 

[HareBrain]

Could someone explain to me what the point of the internet is? I thought I had it for a while, but it's escaped me again.