Editing of submissions, or re-writing a submissions, made through comments.
Rules would include:
- Everyone can contribute as much as they like, any time they like.
- People should try to contribute at least once a week
- Contributions should follow on from the last post - although multiple story lines etc mean that the next post necessarily needs to follow precisely the same narrative sequence as the previous post
- All contributors should have a newsfeed enabled (Atom based) so that they can be readily notified of when others have posted (and what)
- Everyone has rights to the finished work, or any part of the work. Thus. copyright is shared amongst all contributors, for all elements (posts) of the work. Thus, any single person (or group) could take what has been written by any or all of the contributors and publish it as their own work, earning income from such publication, without owing anything to any of the other contributors in any manner. Further, anyone could take any portion (or all) of the work and modify or rework it as they saw fit and then publish it as their own work (as above).
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I like this idea. Shall I start?
Hmmmm...wait...I'll go do some creative thinking....
Well, I thought the system was set up to notify me via email when a comment had ben posted to one of the entries (posts). But I am not sure I got an email, so something may be wrong with the setup. I will check it.
But, in order to make the Serial Novel blog idea work, I think we actually need to setup a new blog, giving it a name, a user and a password, which we can then give to everyone, so that they can contribute multiple posts - rather than just comments on one post. Comments for posts should be reserved for people actually commenting on what someone has written.
The only problem with that is that standard blogs only have one author and therefore there would be no way to distinguish between who wrote what (which is probably part of the attraction of the whole thing).
Maybe I should investigate some other blogging or pseudo-blogging software which allows multiple people access to a site and for each to make their entries easily and to see what the others have writtten.
In the meantime, inspiration can strike (as one sees fit) and it can be a comment on this post, which we can then copy to the final solution at some stage.
I did a little more research into Blogger (which is running this blog).
It allows a thing called Team Blogs, whereby multiple people can post to a single blog. You simply need someone to setup the blog and then to invite other people into the blog (they either must be blogger users or will be prompted to join, for free).
So, all we need to do is think of a name for the first Serial Novel we are going to write, and then start inviting people into it.
The first task is the name.
If we don't come up with anything useful in the next 3 or 4 days, I will create a new blog simply called "Serial Novel 1" (which, imho, is a spectacularly good name to start the whole thing off with anyway) and then issue some invites and get it all going.
If anyone has anyone else they want invited, then they should ask them (I will make everyone invited into an Administrator, which means that they can invite other people and play around with the blog as well - the social trust system at work here).
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