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让我们在 GitHub 上众写一部小说
Let's Crowd-Write a GitHub Novel
导读
这是一个把小说写作搬进 GitHub 的协作实验：所有人通过 commit 和 PR 一起写一部小说。对写作者来说，它把一个核心问题摆到台面上——多人（或未来与 AI、编辑、合作者）共同写作时，靠什么保住整体的焦点与风格统一。几条高赞评论给出了相当具体的方法：先共建大纲与人物、建立“故事圣经”、以章节为单位分工并定期合并。
可以直接用的写作要点
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先集体打磨大纲和主要人物，再分工扩写章节，否则多人写作很容易失去焦点。
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为项目建立统一的风格指南和“故事圣经”（人物设定、世界观、语气规范），让不同作者的细节对得上。
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警惕“廉价笑点”：局部好笑的段落常损害整体，挑选情节时以“与全局是否一致”为第一标准。
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把大工程拆成可迭代的小单元（每章一个仓库/一位维护者，定期合并校对），碎片才能拼成连贯整体。
HN 评论精选
集体写作失败源于无焦点与迎合廉价笑点，解法是先共建大纲人物、按整体一致性筛选情节。
集体写的小说通常读不下去，因为它们没有焦点，而且“即时廉价的笑点”总是赢。可惜，只要多一点事先谋划就能解决：比如先集体开发大纲、主要人物等。还可以系统化地用 Mechanical Turk 让“群众”从几个候选情节中选出与整体最一致的那个。
charlesism查看英文原文
Novels written by groups are generally unreadable. This is because they have no focus, and because the immediate cheap laugh always wins. It's a shame, because with a little more forethought, such shortcomings could be fixed. Ie: start by communally developing an outline, main characters, etc. It would also be interesting to use Mechanical Turk in a systemic way to have "the crowd" determine which of several proposed plot-points is most consistent with the whole, etc.
集体项目必须先有初始结构与明确方向，并事先选好许可与发布工具。
这实验看起来挺有意思，但翻了一些随机 commit 后我觉得，任何集体项目都需要一个初始结构才能运转。建议去 creativecommons.org 选一个限制最少的许可，或选适合这个小组/项目的。可以按 fendent 说的接入 gitbook（我没用过），或者 leanpub——我自用 leanpub，和 GitHub 集成得不错，版税也更划算，不管小组是否以盈利为目标，收益也可以捐出去，只要能调动大家。但你确实需要给小组某种方向。不过如你所说，如果只是实验（这里的回复本身就是数据），那就放手做。
Teichopsia查看英文原文
It does seem like an interesting experiment, but after browsing a few random commits - and personally, any group project needs an initial structure for it to work. I can't remember right now but I have a faint memory of the subject somewhere, probably in college. I would go over to http://creativecommons.org/choose/ and pick the least restrictive license or which ever works for the group / project. You could integrate it with gitbook as fendent mentioned (I have no experience with gitbook past the homepage), or leanpub. I personally use leanpub which integrates nicely with github and the royalty fee is sweeter when compared - despite whether it will be the goal of the group or not. Or the funds can be donated, whatever gets the group motivated or is in line with the group. However, you do need to provide some sort of direction to the group. But as you mentioned, if it's just an experiment (the replies here are in itself data) go for it. If you do decide to give it structure, you can take a look at a very basic book I set up a while back. https://github.com/teichopsia-/valse_of_silence There are others out there that are better but I don't know of any.
用“大纲仓库+章节仓库+定期构建合并”的工程化流程，加风格指南和故事圣经来管理多人写作。
我在想能不能为这类工作做一个精简的平台：像别人说的，从大纲阶段开始，再逐块扩写；大纲自己一个 repo，每个“单元”（大概是章节）有自己的 repo 和维护者；夜间构建把各仓库的内容合并成连贯整体，用大纲条目补齐缺失部分；再在构建之上加个界面方便快速 commit 和提 PR。此外还需要社区风格指南和“故事圣经”——我相信游戏、电视剧这类大量写作者参与的项目就是这么做的。顺带一问：有没有能强制自然语言写作风格一致的工具，像给人写的文本用的 linter？
takemikazuchi查看英文原文
I wonder if it's possible to create a streamlined platform for this kind of work. Like others mentioned being able to start at an outline stage and then move on to fleshing the parts out would be interesting. I could see the outline being its own repo and each "unit"(probably chapters) get their own repo and maintainer. Nightly builds could be conducted to merge the work in the repos into a coherent whole, reconciling missing parts with their outline bullet points. An interface over the "build" to make quick commits and PRs would be nice too. Additionally a community style guide and "story bible" would probably be in order. I believe a lot of writing projects which involve a large number of writers like video games and TV series do things like this. On an unrelated note, are there any tools to enforce natural language writing style compliance? Like code linters for human text?
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