[Newspoetry] Novella Spontaneously Generated in Laboratory Setting

[william]

For Immediate Release:

20 WRITERS COMPOSE HYPERTEXT NOVELLA IN 40 MINUTES. NEW WORLD RECORD?

In a laboratory school in America last month, the results of a bizarre 
writing experiment yielded 476 kilobytes of narrative information in an
astonishing 40 minutes. By comparison, Shakespeare's Hamlet is only 193
kilobytes and, scholars speculate, took several hours to write.

"I am euphoric. This must be what it felt like for those scientists who
created life in a beaker of synthesized primordial soup!" exclaimed
Spineless Books Chief Scientist Q. Synopsis. "These people had no idea
that, within an hour, they would all be hypertext novellaists. If this
experiment yields consistently reproducible results, this could mean a
cure for writers' block in our lifetime!"

The implications go deeper than that, however, in an information-saturated
world in which literature, increasingly, must compete for attention
against voluminous amounts of news, advertising, television, video
games, and pornography. This discovery suggests that teams of writers
working in intensive bursts might turn the information tides, flooding the
media with writing that sells nothing and is devoid of fact.

"We've attempted this feat only once before, at SPCA in
Cincinnati. However, due to an error in the experimental procedure, the
data was lost. We have been waiting for a chance to reenact the
experiment, and are grateful to Elizabeth Majerus for letting us use her
creative writing class as our experimental subject," added a breathless
Synopsis.

Read the results of this revolutionary experimental method at:

                   http://spinelessbooks.com/waters/

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