The Fool on the Mountain LIVEWRITING EVENT

Livewriting began at the Muskoka Novel Marathon, July 16-19, 2010.

The unlikeliest pair in the post-tech world of the Fifth Millennium

HE is a paladin: a brilliant young champion of war, impeccable in character. But he has lost the duel of his life, is forsaken as a loser and a traitor by his home empire, and is separated from the man he loves… the man who defeated him, and might well go on to destroy that empire. Torn and despairing, he is considering ending it all.

SHE is an iconoclast: an elderly, eccentric sage living in a cave on a barren mountain slope, kept in food by local people and pilgrims alike who appreciate her uttered jewels of wisdom—or is it madness? Either way, she seems to have learned the secret of absolutely unshakable happiness, and all who speak with her come away somehow changed.

He needs living space. She needs a guy to do chores.

Maybe he’ll learn something.

Maybe they both will.

A collaborative weblit novel of love and enlightenment
by Shirley Meier and Karen Wehrstein.

After a good start at the Novel Marathon, we are going to continue livewriting this book using Googlewave GoogleDocs. PARTICIPATION IS STILL OPEN--you can be on the waves Docs, heckle, suggest ideas, ask questions, be asked questions, get involved in whatever diabolical schemes we might hatch for your involvement, or even just lurk. We need two things:

a) a valid email address attached to a Google identity so we can add you (send it in a PM on this site or an email to hearth at xplornet dot com)

b) a $10 or more PayPal payment, no longer a donation to the Muskoka Literacy Council (as the Novel Marathon is over) but to Shirley and me to split 50/50.

That payment does NOT apply if you are a patron in good standing (making monthly payments for premium content) of this site or of Shirley's (once she gets that set up.)

Use this button:

When you get the "special instructions to seller" blank, write in "For The Fool on the Mountain" or words to that effect. You will be added to the wavedocs (all of them!) forthwith. Visit www.googlewave.com, https://docs.google.com, and look for files with names that start with the acronym "TFOTM". If you just want to read/watch, you can scroll up or down. To communicate with us, use the message box (click on the chevron on the blue rectangle above and to the right of the text.) You'll quickly get used to how it works, and if it's a planned session so that we're around, we can instruct.

This book, when complete, is going to become a premium content item on both my and Shirley's sites. But your $10 will entitle you to a PDF download of the final version whenever we complete it. Post-novel-marathon schedule was kind of ad hoc for the remainder of the summer, which was a hectic summer, but now that's over we are considering settling into an afternoon each weekend. Well... maybe.

Those who were on the wave during the novel marathon had a blast, as did we. Hope you'll join us.