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Creating a StoryWorld Online Co-creation and Collaboration
Kevin Sung
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Do you have a story to tell?
To let others know about your:
• Creativity • Experience • Thoughts, insights and opinions • Self • …
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Have you written them down?
Reasons of not doing so:
• Time • Skill • Courage • Readers • …
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Stories live forever, but only if you tell them.
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Untold stories are lost forever.
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Make your stories live Forever!
But it’s hard?! Writing doesn't need to be a lonely struggle It can be fun, sociable, and collaborative!
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Co-creation and Collaboration
Co-create a story by sharing of:
• Ideas • Creativity • Experience • Writing Skills • Other talents • …
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Co-creation and Collaboration
Different roles on Penana: • Idea contributor • Co-writer • Beta Reader • Illustrators
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Co-creation and Collaboration
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Co-creation and Collaboration
• More stories can be told (and live)!
• Multiplying Talents
• More possibilities
• Better stories
• Have fun and make friends
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Writing Contests
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Writing Contests
• Another form of co-creation
• Share of the writers’ own interpretation of the writing prompt
• Serial • Challengers write paragraphs after one another to
develop a story
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Issues
• Differing Style
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Issues
• Trust & Copyright • Copy of ideas
• Distribution of royalties
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Issues
• Trust & Copyright • Writers are getting something by the co-creation.
Story writing can be an end in itself.
• If intended to get published, we suggest writers to discuss about copyright upfront.
• Suggestions and guidelines.
• Examples to follow in other areas.
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Quotes
“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms” - Muriel Rukeyser
“Everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them.” - Unknown
“One day the world will realize that the power of an author’s words far surpass the words spoken against them” - Nakysha
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