Gadgetory

so some people in the chat room keep asking what the what the google doc is that that i referenced in the preview post for the show people demand google docs people google doc news but that let us do with Thea the crowd-sourced sci-fi novel that we've been publishing for the past couple of weeks here on Sina we've talked about on the show since I mean this is big enough so that feelings been going on since last year in November is when we threw a Google Doc online with an outline of a sci-fi novel and we asked everyone to help us crowdsource it and then a few months later we did actually have a semblance of a novel and then Kelsey and I and a few other people have spent the last few months editing and endlessly editing the thing providing feedback shaping my big question on this is when it gets optioned how are you gonna do writer credits is the screenplay going to be then crowd-sourced as well I thought I thought so the way we did this you want to get the gritty of it is we put the google doc online and it's still actually there and anyone can still go edit it and play around with it that's actually cnet com / crowd sci-fi that takes you right to the google doc we're talking about and that Google Doc is over 100 pages that is all creative commons meaning anyone could build upon it take it and you know change something else make crowd-sourced fanfiction I don't care do whatever you want but it's amazing to me about this is it was not just completely filled with porn and you know trolling and how did you how did you avoid that there was I mean there was a couple of instances but you know sorry about that by the way I don't like it is now I'm a batch was surprising to me to actually is that yeah I mean there may be one case of vandalism and then there were a few scenes of like maybe so erotica although they actually miss me they weren't actually that bad they didn't make they didn't make the final call add my tentacle paragraph later yeah but you know I don't know I mean I'd like to compare it you know to like a jigsaw puzzle where we just kind of put this jigsaw puzzle out on a card table at a party and then people kind of like would stop and do a couple of pieces or maybe do an entire like section of the puzzle and over a couple of months an actual narrative did emerge and Kelsey you know it's been kind of interesting when you asked hundreds of people to write a book you end up with obviously different writing voices and different writing styles so we did have to get a little creative to figure out a way to kind of preserve the crowd-sourced nature of it I didn't just go in and like edit everything so that it sounds like I wrote it because then what would be the point of having crowd-sourced it so it's worth checking out it's a cnet com / crowd dash control yeah we have ten installments up now I'm also working on kind of a few lessons learned posts a little behind the scenes stuff and it was it was really like interesting interesting process I don't think it I don't know that we produced a Pulitzer Prize winner but I mean it's a co-created work with literally hundreds of contributors behind it so it's was an interesting experience and I think I'm going to be figuring out what we learned from it for all years in advance it still take a long time to digest