The Writer's Guide to the Galaxy?

Published by elliott bledsoe on Monday, 15 December 2008 at 10:18 AM



Over on the ccAustralia website I just posted about the Australia Council for the Arts recently released The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living: Choose Your own Adventure by Therese Fingleton, Christy Dena, Jennifer Wilson over at at The Australia Council. It is very heartening to see that The Australia Council is engaging with the Web 2.0 space and more importantly encouraging and supporting creative practitioners moving into and operating within this space.

As I said on the ccAustralia site, The Writer's Guide includes information about the new media industry, what opportunities and possibilities that creates for writers and how to take advantage of them (business and planning skills). It also includes guides to promotion, distribution and copyright. Then all this is complimented by a set of case studies, audio and video resources and a great 'new media myth busters' section which every writer should read! There's even an interview about Creative Commons and writers in the Web 2.0 environment that Amy Barker from Remix My Lit and I did which I had totally forgotten about.

Personally I want to thank and commend Therese Fingleton, Manager of the Story of the Future program which is responsible for The Writer's Guide. The crew at ccAustralia may have done a little bit of helping out with licensing the guide, but that was definitely Therese's initiative! We thank her for her foresight and leadership on this. The entire The Writer's Guide is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia Licence.

But perhaps my favourite part of the entire project is the promotional video. It exudes a witty dry humor something like a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy–The World Around Us hybrid. Brilliance:


Although, I am not too sure what is with the aeroplane encircled by the two snakes is all about?!?

UPDATE: It has come to my attention that the snakes and plane logo is of course the logo to the film Snakes on a Plane released by New Line Cinema. The film of course made news not just because it included Samuel L Jackson, but because it also incorporated content based on feedback from online users. Thanks for the heads up Tim!

The Writer's Guide comes as interactive media, HTML and as a PDF on The Australia Council website.

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