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Would You Read a Crowdsourced Novel?

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Would You Read a Crowdsourced Novel?
A Chicago artist is trying to write the first user-submitted work of literature, 140 characters at a time.
By Heba Hasan | @Heba__H | April 29, 2012

Just think of the things we can thank crowdsourcing for: Wikipedia. Kickstarter. Urban Dictionary. Nazis on the Moon. Is its next stop literature? That’s what Willy Chyr, a Chicago-based artist and the creator of The Collabowriters, is trying to do. The Collabowriters is an experiment in creating a novel “written by the internet.” Here’s how it works: The novel is written one sentence at a time, with each sentence maxing out twitter-style at 140 characters. Every line is selected from a number of user submissions. The community votes on each sentence, giving it a score of either -1 or +1. The sentence with the highest score over 5 stays, and submissions for the next sentence start.

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It makes you think differently about literature. Always thought of as the product of some individual genius, crowdsourcing turns the novel into a collaborated effort. Currently the work on Collabowriters has 6 paragraphs and focuses on a widower named Zachary.

Tags: Collabowriters, crowdsourced novel, Crowdsourcing, novel, Willy Chyr, Zachary

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