Zirdland.com is ready.
We're going to launch with a party - a competition. Dual competitions, actually. One for novelists, one for screenwriters. It starts on 08/08/08 - and will be sort of a Literary Olympic event. This may be the only writing contest that is judged solely by a machine.
The Arc Angel program scans a literary work, establishes character significance, tracks emotional conflict, story arcs, dramatic resonance, and provides a synopsis and editorial advice. It highlights flat spots in the plot-line, points out sentence groups, paragraphs or whole pages that fall short of advancing the story, and then scores the work against published works - classic and popular - comparing writing styles with established authors.
The Arc Angel can accurately pick a bestseller from the crowd. Writers will get to see a visual representation of their story structure, and publishers will be able to process their slush pile through the program and sift out properties with market potential.
It's a fascinating adventure. Writers who attended our focus group last month agreed that the Arc Angel is a powerful tool to get a look at the sub-text of a manuscript - to "x-ray" the plot structure and character development, and display the underlying genetic code - the literary-DNA in a novel or script. It's a lot of fun to use, and we can't wait to start processing some manuscripts through it. Thus, the dual competitions...
Basically, the prize is $1,000 for the best novel and $1,000 for the best screenplay - again, judged solely by the Arc Angel. We'll post competition standings on ZirdNEWS.com, as well as excerpts from the winning manuscript.
We hope this will be a fun way to introduce the Zirdland Arc Angel writer's tool, as well as other useful tools that we'll roll-out toward the end of the year.
We're just a few days away...so, keep watching: zirdland.com
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