shadow_slayer
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I really want to write a big shared universe story with a bunch of authors all contributing to the story of the world with their own books. who wants to join me?
Make a D&D campaing, it's easier that way. You and the rest are actively involved in the story.I really want to write a big shared universe story with a bunch of authors all contributing to the story of the world with their own books. who wants to join me?
Get a discord server so you can better organize this stuffI really want to write a big shared universe story with a bunch of authors all contributing to the story of the world with their own books. who wants to join me?
I’m seconding this comment. Unstructured and psssive teams get nothing done in the end.I’m doing this in a small way with just my stories plus one more, Parturient, by another author (The Wolf Among the Woods). It helped that she read most of the first big novel and then started to have her own complementary but different ideas. Having a bunch of material to build off is good. We have most of the world-building info, plus spoilers etc, in a shared wiki and have hashed out details to make sure we’re not overlapping or contradicting each other.
Like any collaboration it’s mostly about having the right people, expectations and structure. An open project that anyone can join is a nice idea but the people part is random! So the structure and defined roles/expectations have to carry way more of the burden of quality, or it’ll fall apart pretty quickly.
That said, I do know some people who managed to redraw all of Akira with Simpsons characters, a different comic artist doing each page, a ton of people involved. And it worked! Of course, the task and expectations and limits were really defined, and it was still a ton of work.
This would be easier with a VN. If there is one master repo then pull requests can be dispo'd by the repo owner. At least there is a lead in such a project. With just a group getting together to collaborate with no rules it likely is just a recipe for conflict. No scope, no rules, no peer review, no area where one person's area ends and another's begins...People have even created Visual Novels by banding random people together. We ScribbleHub users should definitely be able to find our comrades in imagination if we try.
It depends on how much personal effort you put in, and the right people to take on the task.