The Novel as Told Through Google Maps
by Jamie Grove on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Waxy turned me onto this very cool site where a novel is told using Google Maps as the background. It's really incredible even if my description is lacking...
Charles Cumming's The 21 Steps:
The 21 Steps is told by following the story as it unfolds across a map of the world. Follow the trail by clicking on the link at the bottom of each bubble.
[Via: Waxy.org Links]
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March 21st, 2008 at 8:56 am
So how did that Clarion West application go for you? I heard you were throwing your hat into the ring…
-Sara King
http://www.kingfiction.com
March 21st, 2008 at 9:12 am
Hi, Sara.
Still waiting. Did you hear yet?
March 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
Yeah, but I rushed ‘em. I got an early acceptance from Odyssey and freaked because I had to put down a deposit or forfeit my spot. I emailed the Clarions and asked them if they could speed it up a bit, and they both wrote back with one-liners that they weren’t going to be offering me a spot in the workshop this year. (Shrug). I’ll just go again a different year.
-Sara King
http://www.kingfiction.com/blog
March 21st, 2008 at 9:23 am
Congrats on getting into Odyssey! That should be fun!
The CW site says that they usually respond about this time of the month (mid-late March), so I suppose I’ll get my rejection pretty soon.
I’m picking up a nice Barbara d’Asti today. I want to have it on reserve to celebrate.
March 21st, 2008 at 9:35 am
Hehe, sweet
Good luck. Should be a pretty good mark in your favor that you run this awesome site!
-Sara King
http://www.kingfiction.com
March 21st, 2008 at 9:40 am
Ha! Thanks!
I’m pretty sure that if they bothered to dig deep I’d get disqualified on the sheer amount of angst I’ve managed to spew across these digital pages.
March 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
LOL, same for mine. I think in one of my recent blog posts, I likened them to savages.
-Sara King
http://www.kingfiction.com/blog
March 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I’m far more into beating myself up instead of others. My thinking is that folks will come in here and say, “Wow, this fella needs therapy or a hug not a workshop.”
May 9th, 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] Thanks to Jamie of How Not To Write, I stumbled across an innovative twist on story telling, done by Penguin Books, under the same name as Mind Sprocket’s tagline: We Tell Stories. [...]