Andreas Roman

How I write

Stories become larger than life when you involve your peers. Editors. Producers. Directors. Actors. Publishers. Fellow writers. Friends and readers. To get the work out there and nurture it together. When you're all in the same room, energised by each other's power of assocation.

With Kludd, we're all contributing. Typing, editing, cutting and pasting at a furious pace. In real time. Separately. Someone leaves, someone enters. Gone is the awkward block from tedious log-ins, interface confusions and unstable syncs. It's only the craft, the story and the work. Together with your friends.

My process

The first words of anything go into Kludd. That's about the only thing I know for sure, when I start writing. Sometimes, I finish the draft before I share. Sometimes, I get nowhere and invite others to help. Or, it's editing on a piece that's done and needs rewrites. But the words stay in Kludd until it's time to frame it, say for print, production or launch. And when I'm the editor or producer, I use Kludd to help whoever's telling the story, to get to where they need to be. I really have no linear way of working, even the smallest slices of text never follow the same template.