Discourse Chronicle

[Stumpo:] We have put up a website which invites visitors to try to write the 7th book in the Harry Potter series before J.K. Rowling can. Each visitor can be reader, writer, and editor, contributing to and changing this ever-evolving project. With any luck, there will be multiple versions of the “book” by time the experiment ends (and those interested on a scholarly level will be able to view the changes that take place over time, as these will be automatically saved and archived on the site).

[We all know how much disdain I possess toward Harry Potter, however, this project sounds cool because of its creative writing properties along with textual editing concerns it may raise. JeFF Stumpo is a colleague from the English department who hosts JavaShock, a slam poetry showcase, twice per semester at Revolutions Cafe in Bryan, TX. BK]

category: Bibliography, Literacy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology