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What if community participation in your writing became just as important, if not more important, than the actual artistic product?

Over at Reel Pop, Steve Bryant gave two thumbs up to the soon-to-be-released web video show, Quarterlife. It will combine MySpace interactivity, web video, and blogs with an ongoing soap opera plot about a bunch of young writers and artists struggling to make it. If it works, the site hopes to create an actual network real-life struggling artists.

The show was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the guys who made cheesy, lovable works like My So-Called Life and Blood Diamond. It's thrilling to think about writing across so many different platforms, and I think the most successful writers in ten years will be just as flexible as they are.

Do you think this can work? 

"Quarterlife isn't just a series. It's a media platform, complete with a vlog-based social network (quarterlife.com) designed to be a support network for 'creatives' fumbling through post-collegiate life. You couldn't create a more self-conscious show unless you spent 30 minutes pointing a webcam at your pierced navel."