New weekly feature: Excitebike
Everyone from my generation who played the Nintendo game Excitebike remembers the giddifying brilliance of the game, made possible largely by a feature allowing players to design their own racetracks. If you were around six years old, as I was then, this was almost certainly your first encounter with self-authored, shareable electronic content, the descendants of which make up what we call Web 2.0: blogs, wikis, embeddable video, social networking.
But giddifying brilliance is everywhere still! So I’m starting a weekly feature called, aptly, Excitebike.
Each Excitebike will have two sections: 1) for readers, links to especially giddifyingly brilliant literary content online, and 2) for writers, a provocative writing prompt, not a traditional one like “What items might your character keep in a box under their bed?”, and maybe not one that’s all that actionable, but one that gets you re-giddified about what’s possible in writing.
It’s Excitebike #1! Go!
