eNovella gives aspiring authors and poets somewhere to share
I’ve never been that keen on the idea of crowdsourcing qualitative opinion; I suppose I lean toward Andrew Keen on that one. I worry that the service will descend into a ratings site for extended jokes, rather than quality poetry (and that appears to be happening already), because that’s what people tend to rate higher.
But if eNovella can make it work – and make a bit of money from selling bound copies of the best stuff – why not? There’s also an iPod touch up for grabs for the first author to get 100 “favourites”. And if that doesn’t get people writing seriously, I don’t know what will.