The focus at trAce is to explore experimental opportunities of new interactive forms. An Online Writing School is opening in the summer of 2001. Choices include the basics of starting to write, courses on writing conventional short stories, hypermedia fiction, and courses on the experimental and theoretical side of online writing. Subscriber pages exist to help members get commissions, work on collaborations or network. It is building a database targeted at all industries requiring writers.
Writers can also offer themselves for hire by entering their credentials into a database.
This exists to promote electronic literature, which it defines as 'new forms of literature which utilise the capabilities of technology to do things that cannot be done in print'. Workshops ELO runs a workshop on the fourth Saturday of every month to examine works in progress and discuss general principles for electronic writing. The best served genre writers on the Web are science fiction and fantasy writers, romantic novelists and poets on both sides of the pond. The Del Rey Digital Writing Workshop is a free online mentoring service for science-fiction and fantasy writers. Participants critique each others' work and must review as many stories as they post up themselves.