New startup for writers - fictionthis.com

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by Ilia • 18 years ago

5 6 18 years ago

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Hi, Some friends and I are really interested in writing so we tried to find a site where we can write together to create a book, and vote on each others work. After looking around we found that there wasn't much choice on the net, so we decided to create a site - http://www.fictionthis.com

It is currently in beta at the moment and we are in the process of selecting the opening verse of the book. I would really appreciate your feedback.

http://www.fictionthis.com/

churp• 18 years ago

have you seen webook.com?

Ilia3• 18 years ago

It has a similar idea..although I haven't seen this before. What we are planning is to concentrate on one book. There will also be time periods for each submission.

kyro• 18 years ago

Nice job. That's new startup #2 today (chompchompdead.com) - which is definitely motivating.

My only criticisms are: Really cut down on that huge red banner at the top. I think most of it is dead space, and one thing that annoys me is having to scroll down on a home page just to see the content. What you can do is move that red banner towards the center and segment it into 'read,' 'write,' 'rate,' to explain the site and have your big 'sign up' button underneath. Also, you might want to jazz up the nav bar seeing everything else seems nicely polished. I think your description of the purpose of the site is a bit confusing and not as direct as it should be, personally. I had a bit of a hard time understanding it. Maybe you should have the login form right on the front page, extra clicks are tedious.

The color palette is pretty soothing and nice to look at. The only thing I might change is to maaaaybe somehow differentiate the ads on the side from the main content of the site.

It'd be cool if you used cafepress or any other service to physically publish the book when it is complete and give those who made it in the book a cut of the book sales, but that's definitely not a primary concern.

Congrats on launch. Sounds cool.

Ilia3• 18 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately since we are just starting and are working a shoe string budget we had to manage with the design, I do take on board the feedback and i am currently changing the content and some styles that do have some rough edges. We are also in talks with different publishers to get the book published once its complete .. that was the initial idea.

aniuta83• 18 years ago

Sounds really good actually will have to take a look!

Ilia3• 18 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it

New startup for writers - fictionthis.com

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