Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Figment.com

A new site debuted this week that aims to be a literary Facebook for the teenage set -- a social network for young adult fiction.
Figment.com will be unveiled on Monday as an experiment in online literature, a free platform for young people to read and write fiction, both on their computers and on their cellphones. Users are invited to write novels, short stories and poems, collaborate with other writers and give and receive feedback on the work posted on the site.
Check out Figment.com and for a bit more background read the NYT article. (Thanks, Claire)

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