Protagonize.com: Collaborating on Stories for Fun
I was browsing RedCanary.ca and I came across a mention of Protagonize.com. I had never heard of it before and it turns out Protagonize is a fiction writers’ community site where writers contribute to each others stories. It is fan-fiction meets twitter-fiction meets choose-you-own-adventure all wrapped up in web 2.0 style interface.
From their website:
Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction.
One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.
Pretty neat. I wondered why I had never heard of them before. A quick web search revealed that protagonize was founded by a young Canadian guy from Vancouver and just launched at the start of the year.
I love this idea. It perfectly straddles the old/new publishing divide — any author will understand it, but only authors online will be able to do it. It is the product of a different kind of thinking, thinking beyond the ebook-as-a-file trap traditional publishers get stuck in when they think digital.
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