GitHub Can Publish Every Draft of A Book Simultaneously, Shows True Beauty of the Creative Process

Writing is an iterative process. This article, for example, was revised 16 times before publishing. Writers, however, tend not to show their creative process-the final product usually stands on its own, free from markups, strikethroughs or tracked changes. Gregory Mazurek, a computer programmer from New York, has used the tools from his day job to show that the process of writing, in his case a novel, can be just as important as the final product.

Mazurek, whose pen name is Gregory Gershwin, is a software engineer at the online retail site Gilt. Like many programmers, Mazurek uses GitHub