An author used GitHub to write a book (opens in new tab)

Gregory Gershwin here. I've seen a few people use version control for technical books, but I haven't seen much for fiction yet. And for young adult fiction, I think the examples are slim to none. I'm hoping that opening this works encourages people to think about other ways of writing/telling stories.

Github can do better with word highlighting [0]. However, I checked a few of my own commits and this seems to be unreliable. I very rarely view diffs on Github, so I do not really care. Maybe someone who uses it more ca comment how good the word highlighting works.

[0] https://github.com/blog/1885-better-word-highlighting-in-dif...

It seems like an interesting question: which would be the ideal unit for diffing? For software we just use the line of code, but for prose perhaps it would be by sentence? Should the VCS notice when sentences are transposed? It seems there could be more tool development in this area...

I've noticed a few online publications do this lately. They basically attach additional, recently-published articles in an endless feed as you scroll down to keep you on the site longer (similar to Pinterest/Facebook feed/Twitter).