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About Me

I want a word is a new approach to writing: an attempt at what could be the world's biggest literary collaboration, and a chance for up to ten thousand people to become involved in the writing of a single book.
Author Chris Baker is selling a total of 10,000 words at the price of Â£1 each. If you pay your pound, you can choose to contribute any word that you like. Then, when all ten thousand words have been sold, Chris will take these words, add a few more of his own, and weave them into a single, coherent story. When completed, the novel will be published, free of charge, as a downloadable pdf ebook and will be available to buy in conventional, printed, format.
If you're interested in contributing a word, or just finding out a bit more about the project, visit the website at www.iwantaword.com .
There's also an advert for the project currently hosted on youtube, which you can view here:
A lot of people have been asking me what I'm going to do with the money I make from the project. To be honest, until recently I hadn't given it much thought - the project is so far away from actually making any money that I didn't really seem worth thinking about! However, I've now decided that I'm going to give any money that I make from I want a word to my dad - he's the one who's given me the support and encouragement to get the project up and running, so I think he deserves it!

My Interests

Reading; writing, and experimenting.

I'd like to meet:

Budding authors; people who aren't afraid to try something different, and anyone with an interest in literature.

Music:

Anything and everything really. I get bored quite easily if listening to one band, so I tend to just go for whatever's on the radio.

Movies:

The Last King of Scotland; Children of Men; Starsky and Hutch; Hotel Rwanda

Television:

Trashy channel 4 stuff - Wife Swap, that kind of thing; Neighbours; Grand Designs (I saw Kevin McCloud in Tie Rack at Edinburgh Airport - awesome!); think that's about it really.

Books:

Anything and everything really. Fiction; biography; travel; history: if it's good, I'm interested.

Heroes:

Roadney Jack; Alan Partridge; Linus Pauling; Harry Potter; Samuel Baker

My Blog

Kilimanjaro: Hakuna Matata

Hi Guys,Well, I must begin by apologising for my recent absence from the blogosphere. I really don't know where the time has gone, but you can rest assured that I have been busy. Things have been goin...
Posted by i want a word on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:53:00 PST

BBC blues

Hi guys, Sorry it's been a while since my last post; I've been spending my time out and about trying to drum up some publicity for I want a word, as well as working on another project (which you'll he...
Posted by i want a word on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:56:00 PST

On a Wing and a Prayer

Hi Guys, How's everything going? Things here at I want a word have been going quite slowly recently, certainly more slowly than I would have liked. The major problem, I think, is that all of the initi...
Posted by i want a word on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:14:00 PST

Buying Time

The internet really is an amazing place. There's new ideas and new experiments starting all the time, some of which you've heard about on this blog. Yesterday afternoon I was reading a magazine and st...
Posted by i want a word on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST

Fame! (Well, kind of)

Hi Guys, How's it going? Things here at "I want a word" are pretty good - the words are still coming in, slowly but surely, and I'm now up to a grand total of 46. That still may not sound that impress...
Posted by i want a word on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:41:00 PST

Win a word - the results

Hi Everybody,Firstly, let me apologise for the delay in getting the results of the competition posted here. They should have been up yesterday afternoon, but I was having some kind of weird computer p...
Posted by i want a word on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 03:12:00 PST

Suffering for your art

Regular readers of this blog will know that "I want a word" is far from being the only community writing project out there in cyberspace. You may, in particular, remember plotastic!, a project run by ...
Posted by i want a word on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:44:00 PST

Win a word

Through the generosity of one of my contributors, I'm pleased to announce a competition where you could win the right to choose a word for inclusion in the "I want a word" book.So, what's the deal? We...
Posted by i want a word on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:25:00 PST

Exciting times!

To be honest, I was feeling a bit despondent at the start of the week. I hadn't sold any words since the previous Monday, and I felt like I was struggling to maintain any real momentum with "I want a ...
Posted by i want a word on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:19:00 PST

Looking up, and name that tune

Hi Everybody, Thanks for coming along to check out the "I want a word" blog. I'm pleased to report that I'm feeling a lot more positive than I was when I posted my last entry. For those of you who hav...
Posted by i want a word on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:13:00 PST