Ideas For Our Case Study

As we come to the end of the semester, we're trying to think of a case study group we could talk to about our collaborative novel.  Here are some of my ideas:

We could present the idea to creative writing professors on campus.  We could discuss how they could use this idea in their classes.  Collaborative writing is a challenge, and online collaboration could be a good way for students to practice this form.  Also, it might help students develop characters and plot.  For example, one student must write an outline and a character bio that is complete enough that another student could write a short story/chapter about that character.  Students realize how their characters need to be developed more.  Finally, using this format, students recognize tone and style.  They realize that they do have their own voice in writing and it is different from their classmates.  It is a challenge to write like each other and try to keep the voice the same.

Another group to whom we could present our idea are creative writing clubs.  In this case, the purpose is not so much teaching, but trying out a new form.  It could be an activity for the group to try out.  We can also explain that in this format, one author doesn't have to do so much.  They can write a novel faster by crowd sourcing it.

Also, we could take this to a creative writing conference.  We could talk about crowd sourcing and online creative writing projects going on right now, and then discuss our format.  This might be a TedX style talk, where we show what we did and invite others to try it out.  While this would be the best case study group as it would reach further, it might be hard to find a conference going on right now.