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Interestingly this makes team writing (a TV show for eg) easier. Showrunner maintains Bible pages. Writers room produces episode treatments, new character proposals, etc. Interested fans can buy backstage pass and watch the show develop though 9-% will only want finished show
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If you’d asked me 10y ago, I’d have said this won’t work because readers want full escapist immersion in a story. Now I’m not so sure. Between weird metamodern fiction taking off, fan fiction, fandom sites, gaming, and what I’ve seen in Hollywood studio tours/theme parks…
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… there is a participatory fiction medium waiting to be born. And for writers, it’s a way to sustainably make money off a normally backend type writing process that you either do on spec with no feedback, or get an advance to underwrite
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This product need (and I know I’m not the only one who needs this) is basically “Serialize and Publish a Second Brain as it hardens and gels, behind a paywall” The “content garden” subculture is an improvised version of about half this product.
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I could probably spec this out fairly completely to be productized. But going by product manager experience 15y ago, it would be a near full-time job.
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Actually, now that I think of it, I already have 46k worth of a rough-finished and published/tested fiction (the fiction part of Art of Gig) ready and perfect for this kind of medium. I even conceived it as a TV-show style thing set in an extended universe with worldbuilding.
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I think what I might do is put that draft in a Roam graph and open it up to anyone who seriously wants to either a) experiment with a publishing model for it b) continue expanding the universe with more stories.
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