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The problem with most collaborative narratives is that someone can just come online and kill off one of the characters. If you do a linear narrative, you have to edit everything, so that no one can alter the story more than everyone else wants. A collaborative novel just doesn’t work in a line – giving one contributor 100 words, and giving the next another 100 words. It becomes this weird one-upmanship. But collaborative story-telling does work for a nested narrative.
The annotations ended up telling a story about what the future world was like in a much more mosaic way than through a linear story.
