"In the following, there is the translation of the beginning of an immensely popular forum post. This is a story about a man's involvement in the world of gangsters in China. The author was probably making things up as he progressed. Periodically, some of the commentators stepped in and made up their own variations. So the popularity of this forum post is based upon different reasons, of which the interaction may play a significant role."
It's fan fiction without a canon for readers to reference, a Choose Your Own Adventure written by readers and writers who bicker over what happens next, and one crazy step for blogging and fiction and humankind. Before being boingboinged, that story had 1.7 million page views and 21,000 different episodes.
As a publishing experiment, I'm exploring the whole Chinese Gangster Story medium in my own work--writing about two messed up bloggers in New York. If you are an adult and you are interested in contributing an episode to a piece of mass-written fiction, then go check it out...
» Writers' Blook from ThePublishingSpot
The print-on-demand company, Lulu, just released the first annual Blooker awards, awarding prizes to the best website-developed books of the year. It's a great idea, and the company has a great year--it's a hard time for publishing, and these cre... [Read More]
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