Wovel - not your shovel variety.

I'm an NPR addict. It's really all I listen to these days. I'm so ridiculously addicted to it that I will debate with my friends my favorite shows and journalists. The fact that I admit I listen to Sci-Fri, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and now I've moved to the home of Prairie Home Companion is insane!!

So today on NPR I heard a story about the newest, ever yet evolving Internet that I found very appealing - I think it will also appeal to my SIL immensely.

We have blogs, and twitters and all kinds of new ways of communicating. Now we have "wovels". That's right wovels - web novels. According to NPR a wovel is: The Wovel: Literary Alternative To Browsing Blogs.

While Victoria Blake was working as an editor at Dark Horse Comics, she used breaks from work to surf the Web. "I noticed that I was using my random 10 minutes in between tasks to go to gawker.com, which is my favorite media gossip site," she says. "I realized that if I provided prose — fiction — that I would want to read, myself ... that I would use those 10 minutes to read prose, not gossip."

In that vein she came up with the idea of Wovels. “A wovel is a web novel. There's an installment every Monday. At the end of every installment, there's a binary plot branch point with a vote button at the end.” Victoria Blake.

I seriously want to know why my SIL or I or either of our mom's did not come up with this idea as voraciously as we all read.

Side note - if you happen to Google "wovel", this is what you come up with:



World's Safest Snow Shovel

Perhaps they need a better name?


~Edited due to author's accidental publishing prior to finish.