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there was a website linked to here somewhere; everyone visiting the site, added a word. I think futurebird put up the link. |
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and in X years they produce a shakespearean play? |
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If one understood how to make this work, a lot of problems in collaboration would be solved. |
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Some thoughts about why doesn't it work:
- Participants don't have a stake in the overall outcome. They're not going to stick around until the story is finished!
- If you had a stake in the overall outcome, and someone screwed up, there'd be no way for you to fix it.
- As an individual contributor, it is more interesting - calls more attention to you, is funnier - to break a pattern than to complete it. |
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In contrast, real storytelling is a collective process that does work, and that does tend to promote and construct most memorable stories from swarms of so-so ones; to wit, urban legends and religious myths. |
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A sort-of inverse of this idea Shelley Jackson's Ineradicable Stain project: "A story published on the skin of 2095 volunteers." One word on each volunteer. |
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