Spitballing · 1:50am Sep 18th, 2014
Had a really fun idea at work today (pushing trays leaves you a lot of time to think): a collaborative writing group. Everyone would work on a story together, through every step of the process, blurring the line between author and editor. Deadlines would need to be in place for each stage, otherwise the story might never get published, doomed to be forever revised (while that could be fun, I'd imagine people would want to eventually finish one story and move onto another)
The tricky part would be handling disagreements. There'd need to be some kind of system in place that doesn't bog the whole process down. Ideally, it should come up only rarely, and even then wouldn't take up much time. Maybe most members would propose changes, and one person would be in charge of actually making them, unless a proposed change is contested, in which case it could come to a simple majority vote
This sounds far better than writing a story by oneself or with a single co-author, but this might be one of those (many) cases where I'm just weird
