I was excited to hear that one of my classmates in a Rhetoric and Technology class has begun an interesting experiment in novel writing. The plan is to get readers to pay her as she writes her novel. The more they pay, the more likely she is to take their advice about where the story should lead. Already, she's earned over $250, which is pretty damn good for internet fiction in my opinion. She describes the process here.

I really like this project and am greatly excited about its potential. I've been saying for years now that the Internet and P2P calls for creative people to restructure how they earn their livings; they must be paid for performance, not product. It seems that my new friend has stumbled on to a brilliant way to achieve this balance, though she is entirely skeptical about my claims that she should shirk all copyright and just rely on the performance model to earn her living.