How do you make writing a more deeply social activity, multiplexed at the level of the smallest possible thought chunks? I don’t mean more hyperlinking, transclusions, or awkward collaborative-writing games. More like longform that’s social the way a twitter convo thread is. 
-
-
Hollywood writing is probably the most collaborative known to the world. Especially TV. Movies are a serial relay race, but TV is parallel+multiplexed with a series bibleand showrunner coordinating things. Like a symphony orchestra.
Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
i didn't design it w/ this in mind, but often thought this idea i had for a writing tool could also work for forking sections & social writinghttps://twitter.com/tryprocessor/status/813272580606099457 …
-
does the demo still work?
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
http://genius.com is a non-software collaborative editing platform. they designed it for song lyrics, mostly, but there are some other interesting documents on their. the premise seems to work better for commentary than for primary text.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
-
-
Also, with code there's no doubt that I had a bug and you fixed it, so I'm happy to cede some control. I don't want someone with no ear for language adding commas and "fixing" my writing.
-
I'm fine with glitchy aesthetics and uneven language. I'm more concerned with mind-melding the ideas than the surface imperfections of the language. The latter can always be outsourced to a decent editor to fix in post.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Exactly. Writing is dependency hell. Same reason why it’s hard to have many co-authors for books, esp novels. Hard to parallelize.
-
Also comparison with code isn’t quite right bc code is a trnaisitonary form: not meant for consumption by end users. It produces software experiences which must be holistic. But if the code is gnarly, that can be okay.
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.