WEbook, a whole new game.

Good news, there are lots of people out there who enjoy writing.  Lots.  Some enjoy writing so much that they decided to back WEbook financially.  The ranks have grown as have the coffers.  Our newest investors have added greatly to our company and I bid them welcome.  

I don't feel like going into great detail so...For more info check these out: Techcrunch and Marketwatch.

In other news.  There are a ton of great projects floating around the site.  They need some quality reviewers.  Do you know how to read?  Do you know what you like?  Can you play well with others?  I bet you're perfect for us and don't even know it yet.

"WEbook Takes on the Big Book Boys"

We've been silent for a while, but we've been busy. WEbook had its first ever voting cycle at the end of July and the users narrowed the selection down to a final 10%. I can't wait to see who gets chosen, can you?
Personally, I'd like to see the top 10% compete in a literary decathlon.
The EVENTS:
1) the 100 word hurdles
2) the 6 Word sprint
3) Plot vs. Detail tug-of-war
4) the Plot-twist discus
5) the Flashback long jump
6) the Clean Story Arc javelin
7) the Drive the Point home shot put
8) the 400 meter Poem
9) the Bestseller pole vault
10) the Path to Publishing marathon
I wanted to throw in something like mud wrestling, but was convinced to preserve the Olympic spirit and stick to "real" events (though I did manage to push the line at a few points).

Hey, did I mention that our CEO, Itai Kohavi was recently interviewed by Jemima Kiss of the UK's Guardian about WEbook AND his MUNI-riding ability? Itai's pretty awesome by the way, I can't imagine a more in-touch CEO. Do you know anyone who rides a mountain unicycle?
Not only will this article convince you of Itai's fantastic sense of balance, it will also help you know how to explain WEbook to your mother. Did you know that (insert statistic)% of mothers don't yet know about WEbook!? Isn't it about time that they did? Let's get out there and make a difference, one mother at a time. Need some WEbook projects for mothers to help with the explaining? Here are a few: A Mother's Love, Motherhood, and My First Year with Mommy.

Did I also mention that we now have over 10,000 book projects for your reading pleasure? And while you go browse through those, we here at WEbook are going to go back to disrupting "a notoriously elitist industry". :~)

Goodbye To You

There comes a time in every intern's internship when the summer must end. The job is done. Certain people have to, you know, pack for college. I've had an awesome time getting to know both the WEbook staff and the WEbook site members, and I hope to keep in contact with quite a few of you. You know what my penname is; message me sometime.

Enjoy what's left of summer, and keep writing!

~sara

Publishing is MINE!

I really wanted to say that. I found this blog: http://koreaismine.blogspot.com/ and decided I find it funny. Not as funny as this one: http://users.livejournal.com/kim_jong_il__/ , but the livejournal one is no longer active.
It's getting close to the voting period here at WEbook and you should come read the projects that have been submitted. It's like a hunt for buried treasure. We all enjoy treasure hunts, don't we? I mean, we all secretly want to be pirates, right? The official WEbook blog went pirate-y recently.
I had a classmate in an English class show up in full pirate garb refusing to speak in any lingo but pirate for the entirety of International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Until that day, he was so reserved that I honestly wondered if he actually liked anyone else in the class or merely tolerated us. Now I know that he, like all the other people in the class, was simply a freshman afraid to interact with others and show personality lest a demonstration of individuality go over badly. Isn't it ironic that at the beginning of college so many people are afraid to stand out and by the end it seems like most people have personalities so bloated that no one else can fit in the room with them? Please excuse the tangent.
I'm in a very random state of mind today. I'm trying to brainstorm for writing as the creativity well has been particularly dry of late. Will return later with more. Later may be tomorrow. Or next week...

Intern Olympics

No need to wait until August- WEbook's interns have a little olympics of our own. Starting today, Andi, Sam and I each created (or will be creating, I suppose- Sam's project isn't up yet) a writing project. We're actively campaigning these, trying to make them as well-known and popular as possible. There's a complex point system involved, and an unannounced prize for the winner.

Andy's taking her chances on a universal emotion. Her project, FEAR, asks for "Any genre, any fear." It's got 4 submissions, and 4 comments- the highest so far.

I'm looking for a niche in Top Writers Under 20, trying to find WEbook's greatest young writers. I'm in second place with 3 submissions, 1 comment.

Sam, however, may be the wild card here- she's holding off posting right now (for strateigic reasons? what's her secret?), and we'll only know how well she's doing as soon as she gets her project up on the site.

This early, though, anything can change. The projects will run through most of the summer, up to the first intern's last day. And only time will tell whose methods will pay off.

There are no torches, no opening ceremonies, but the message is clear- May the best intern win.

Fun site

Just want to leave you a pretty awesome website: http://www.etsy.com/

The Last of June

We haven't posted in a while...Things have been a little busy here in the office. Things have, in fact, been going pretty great--We've had a ton of New Projects and New Users. (Check out the New Projects and find something you like.) Also: If you're going to be in the DC area for the 4th of July, we'd like to give you FREE Ice Cream. Yes, FREE. Though we will make you write for it.

Posting links here at Blogspot (or Blogger) seems to be a bit of an issue. They don't like to be edited or format correctly during the posting process. We have another blog-like entity for your viewing and reading pleasure: The WEbook Live Journal. Sara keeps it going, and she's pretty great at it.

In the coming days, we Interns are going to have WEbook Intern Olympics . Basically, we will each create a project and see who rocks it the most. I screwed up and used an awesome project idea as a test run and now it doesn't get to count as my entry. Check out My Project, "6 Word Stories" and add yours.