Collaborative fiction
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The most exciting part of this wiki is collaborative fiction writing! You can write fiction by yourself, but wiki technology makes it easy and fun to write collaboratively.
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[edit] How much time do you have?
enough time to write one word - participate at One-word-at-a-time.
enough time to write a sentence - participate at Category:Fortunately unfortunately
enough time to write a paragraph - participate at Complete the Stories
enough time to....well, I want to get serious about this! - Make sure that you register a user name and put some information about your interests on your user page. Read the rest of this page and feel free to add your ideas. Other participants of this wiki are also looking for collaborators, so explore, post your own ideas for collaborations, and have fun!
[edit] Communication
Our first means of collaboration here is posting messages on talk pages. But a more effective one is to log in into an IRC channel devoted to Fiction Wikia: irc://irc.freenode.net/#fiction-wikia
[edit] Using wiki software for collaborative fiction writing
- VirileMail was one story made in collaboration by a group of authors. Check How the story was created for more information.
- Collaborative illustration project
- Lorica is a fantasy themed constructed world which you can edit.
- share and browse at Story Ideas
- Looking for collaborators: JWSchmidt
- .....add your collaborative project here!
[edit] collaborative environments
There is an article about Collaborative fiction at the collaboration wikia.
Although the word collaboration is widely used in many varying contexts such as education, science, art and business, very little research has been carried out to determine the properties of this process. With the relatively recent advent of computer mediated communication (CMC) and the resulting rise of online collaboration, the nature of collaboration is coming under more intensive scrutiny. As software designers, facilitators and theorists from many diverse fields strive to create more useful and effective collaborative environments and methods, more light is shown on this ubiquitous and taken for granted practice. However, what light is being cast is still fairly refracted into the diverse fields in which the research is being carried out.
Trebor Scholz from the Institute for Distributed Creativity suggests these guidelines:
* Develop trust and mutual respect * Stick to initially made commitments * Outline clear and attainable short and long-term goals * Define needs/self-interest well * Give reasons behind your thinking * Combine online collaboration with face-to-face meetings to speed up the process * Be concise, patient, and persistent * Get everybody involved in the process * Develop a clear process including self-reflexive loops * Develop good listening skills * Pay attention to scale in collaborative groups (production groups: 4-5 participants) * Put a stop to domineering interruptions and put-downs * Communicate frequently, clearly and openly * Acknowledge upcoming problems * Use facilitators for larger groups * Develop a long-term view * Take a dose of humility * Learn when to let go
[edit] Links to other fiction wikis
- FrontPage
- more links at the wikimedia meta wiki
