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The first-ever Essential Prose contest has come to a close, and I’m extremely excited to introduce you to the winner.
Amber Shah will use nakedcreativity.com to launch a unique platform for people to connect through their raw, creative ideas and schemes. There’s a catch — here it is in Amber’s own words:
Unedited writing.
It would be a blog-ish platform where users could post their thoughts and network with others. The kicker would be that when they logged in and started typing, it was all automatically saved and posted. No editing like in blogs. No deleting entries like in twitter.
The nakedness is that you really just get it out there as it comes out of your head. The creativity is all the zaniness that might follow.
Amber and I have already chatted a bit, and I think her idea is ripe with potential. If you’re excited about her idea too, you can say hi to Amber on Twitter — she’s @AmberShah. She’d love to connect with all you creatives for ideas, brainstorming, and also some guidance for the techie side of things. Help her make this into an incredible new platform!
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congrates to the winner. Hi Amber!
Thanks!
I’m excited and I’d love your help! Anything from providing ideas and support to doing testing or even the techy development stuff. If you can pitch in any amount would be great, just email me at email (at) ambershah (dot) com.
.-= Amber´s last blog ..How to Groom Your Big Ideas for Success =-.
Congratulations Amber! I think the site is a wonderful idea. For me the biggest problem I have with raw unedited ideas would be the many, many, many typos!
.-= Sean´s last blog ..Weekly Wrap Up II =-.
Congrats, Amber! I think the fear-factor of not being able to revise and edit is really exciting. (As I type this comment, I’ve already deleted probably 50 times.) I teach HS English and I think that this is a great idea for students too, especially those who are afraid to write because of spelling errors and grammar mistakes — even when their ideas are brilliant. I might just send them your way once you get the website going!
Amber put up a splash page, so you can sign up to be notified when it goes live! http://www.nakedcreativity.com/
Caren – I completely agree … telling people that they’re *supposed* to be doing unedited, free-flowing writing can bring out new waves of writing… love it
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