November in Manchester

Social media – great, isn’t it? Facebook, Myspace, Twitter...how else would you spend those idle hours when your boss is out? Certainly not doing the filing, if you’re anything like me. Some people are actual experts in social media. Can you imagine? I can – I spoke to one once, in a pub. It was pretty boring, I have to say, but not altogether soul destroying. It can be a fairly interesting world, that of Social Media, if you look into it. I probably just wasn’t in the mood when I was in the pub.

Anyway, my social media musings are not without purpose, you may be surprised to learn, as word reaches us of an ambitious, but nonetheless inspiring, project involving social media, Manchester and a love story. Not a combination you might expect to see but one that a Manchester-based writer, and social media fan, presumably, has conjured to create what will be a sort of novel played out through the medium of social media and the internet. A Smovel, perhaps? (can you see what I did there?)

There’s more to this, however, as the great Mancunian public are being asked to contribute to the story by sending in photos of places and landscapes of Manchester that will then shape the settings of the story. Spanning a whole month (November, believe it or not), the story will be played out through the various Facebook, twitter and blog accounts of the main characters of the story, integrated into which will be the photos and situations sent in previously by you, the lovely public.


If you fancy getting involved in this Smovel (I’m having copyright on that, by the way) go check out novemberinmanchester.blogspot.com. Your photos of all things Manchester will be grateful received at ilove@novemberinmanchester.com.