I made a thing to help people write stories together!

[jojo]

So my project for the past couple months has been creating a tool where people can write short stories collaboratively!

You can visit it here to get a sense of what it's like with some "fake" stories (the current story is just a copy-pasted folktale).

http://ensemble.stanford.edu

Basically the idea is that there's a lead author that controls the overall direction of the story, and creates mini-writing prompts for sections of the story. Other people can contribute pieces of writing to address that writing prompt. For example, the lead author can create a prompt at the beginning of the story that says something like "I have characters X and Y, but are not sure how they should meet. Maybe someone wants to try to write this part?"

I'm wondering if Secundi would be willing to try it out Perhaps if someone started a story, the rest of us could pitch in to write it together! We could write a regular short story or it could even be useful for things like RP adoptable events. I would lead a story myself, but I'm too biased to get a balanced perspective on what works and what doesn't.

Does this sound like it could be fun to anyone?

[Sunchaser]

I am very interested! i am sick right now or I would go and start one :-p

[jojo]

Yay, I'm glad to hear you're interested, Sunny But I'm sorry to hear that you're sick! Get better soon... it's just that time of year where colds and flu are unavoidable :x

[jojo]

Welp, I was able to partner up with the creative writing department at my school -- I'm running a writing competition to help kickstart usage of the tool, and the prize is $500 and publication in the Stanford Arts Review!

I know many of you like to write, so if you're interested please do join in! I'll copy-paste the official announcement below.

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Submissions are now open for the very first Stanford Story Slam! With a team, use the new and experimental Ensemble collaborative writing platform to write and enter a short story you create with a team. While providing invaluable feedback on how to improve the platform, you will also be one of the first to try out a novel way of working together with other writers.

The winning collaboration will receive $500, publication in the Stanford Arts Review and hold the distinction of pioneering collaborative story making on the web. Submissions are due April 22, 2013.

Ensemble is a project coming out of the Human-computer Interaction group at Stanford University, with the goal of designing and discovering new ways of supporting creative work.

See more details on competition rules and Ensemble here: http://ensemble.stanford.edu/storyslam

[Rosewood]

oooo, I will defiantly have to check this out later when the net is a bit more stable. I have a ton of friends that would be interested as well..... ^_^

[jojo]

Wheee, please do!

[Sunchaser]

sorry for not starting one yet jojo we ended up getting loaded by life lol but I have a idea of what to do so I hope to enter still