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I watched a Never Ending Story play out long ago (possibly it was on a Lulu.com forum?). Absolutely horrible. You mix in bad writers with worse writers, and jus
by jeromec 16y ago
I watched a Never Ending Story play out long ago (possibly it was on a Lulu.com forum?). Absolutely horrible. You mix in bad writers with worse writers, and just when you come across a half-decent page some other author whisks the story off in a totally different direction.
- haraball 16y agoWhat if people could continue the story tree horizontally, and continue on the part they found most interesting? Then the parts with the most "continuations" could get a higher ranking and therefore shape the best story at the (never)end.
- jeromec 16y agoThat does sound like it could result in an improvement, but the tree would grow quite large I imagine! :) Each writer would have to read each horizontal version to decide where to continue, and I'm betting there would be multiple continuation points, too, so it would start to look like the exponential story, especially with a virtually endless supply of writers. Crowd-sourced writing is a fun idea, but I think at best it might be an activity writers do to stay creatively loose.
- c1sc0 16y agoMaybe you could alleviate the problem by introducing a distinction between 'writers' & 'editors'? Or maybe have people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story?
- khafra 16y ago> people collaboratively write an outline then let a good writer write the whole story? MSPaint Adventures[1] is like this. Generated off a SomethingAwful thread suggesting story ideas/outline, and then written/illustrated by another party. [1] http://www.mspaintadventures.com/ http://www.mspaintadventures.com/