Dubbing

November 26, 2006 at 7:39 pm · Filed under UNH, projects, teaching

Next semester, in Creative Nonfiction, I’d like to work with my students to create an online creative nonfiction magazine, starting with blogs in Wordpress Multiuser and eventually transitioning into a blog/magazine hybrid format.

Now, I tried this whole online magazine thing once before, and it didn’t work quite as well as I wanted, due to admittedly half-assed course design and execution.⁽¹⁾

But this time I’m really going for it.

The first thing I need is a good title for the journal. I want something that doesn’t sound “schooly” (as this journal will be public, not classroom-based). It can indeed be cool-sounding or even completely random. It’s gotta be catchy enough to get would-be writers interested.

Here are the online nonfiction journals whose titles I know, with their various degrees of coolness⁽²⁾:
Brevity
Creative Nonfiction
Etude
Fresh Yarn
Salt
Seven Seas

Any good title ideas?

⁽¹⁾ I’ll be detailing the implications of “fake apprenticeship” processes in a paper for Tom and an upcoming conference presentation… more on that soon.
⁽²⁾ Please note, however, that all of these journals are decidedly “printy”—that is, they don’t take advantage of the fact that they’re on the web. So these are models for the title, not the format. The edgy Six Billion is probably closer to what I want to do, although I’m looking to do something smaller in scope and more open to non-professionals.

EDIT: Just checked my feed reader. Everyone blogs on Sunday, don’t they?

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