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This preview release for The Unfold script makes available over half of the writing from the draft release. This draft is unpolished, and designed to include feedback and commentary from members to help guide it (it is less emergent than the alternative script project, The Ravages, but still open to collaboration and input).
We’ve been having quite some discussion, and there’s some forum topics on this, about how we simplify the complex task of creativity and collaborative creation.
We need to build these into the platform for the next public stage so Angels coming later into the creative process can get up to speed, and plug into the stories, and participate easier as they like. At the moment we have a clear problem of enthusiastic members when they join having a very steep effort and learning curve to get up to speed on the process and all the materials produced.
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This is our first Arch Angel posting.
JP Drecourt writes –
With Plotbot selected as our writing tool, and a good month of experimentation with the interface, the writing team is now focussing on giving The Ravages (ex-Glitch plot) its full complexity. To do so, we have decided to freeze the writing for a while and focus on the biography of the characters and the historical events that led to the story we are telling. A great thank you to all the writers who have contributed in this first phase. Their work have highlighted strengths and weaknesses in the plot and the character biographies, and made Plotbot a better tool to write collaboratively.
To our knowledge this is the most ambitious collaborative writing ever done, so I encourage everybody to contribute and suggest new creative ways of making the story progress.
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Tags: archangels, asoa community, theravages, writing
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