Penguin is trying out a wiki novel. Wow. Now we get to find out what a *multitude* of bad writers working together sounds like.
I’m sorry, but while I believe in writing being a social act, I really think that any quality writing is a practice in solitude, albeit a solitude informed by someone interacting and writing with others, if that makes sense. I think the social aspects of writing, especially of writing fiction, are most powerful in the invention of ideas (great book, btw), rather than true collaborative interactive wiki writing.
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The Ze Frank Show here http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/01/013107.html mentions the audience as being part of art as much as the creation is.
Yes, audience is part of creation, but at the end of the day, written fiction, I think, needs a focused editor and it’s very difficult to get a group to be focused in such a detailed way.
I would prefer being engaged with one mind at a time. I think a Wiki novel would be like a book from a person with multiple personality disorder.