Collaborative writing is the craft of producing a text by weaving together the creativity of many people. Treefingers gamifies that experience in the spirit of the "choose your own adventure" books popular in the 80s. Those books, though, only ever spoke in one direction: the reader could take no action beyond the choices printed at the end of each chapter, and every path eventually hit a dead end. Treefingers removes that limit by giving each reader the title of author, and each author the title of reader. The "author" here is simply the one who plants the seed — the tree, the forest, and the growing itself are in the community's hands.
Seen a branch worth grafting onto Treefingers? Or stumbled on a rotten one? This place grows the same way its stories do — by the hands of the people wandering through it. Ideas, bug reports, stray thoughts: send them along, and we'll tend to every one.
→ treefingers.co@gmail.comA forest is a container of stories: at once a place where stories on a shared theme grow together, and a community that tends them. Wander through the topics other authors have opened, or create your own.
A story is a tree of chapters. A title, a few opening words, and a forest to grow it in — you'll need nothing more. Tag it, if you wish, so others can find it easily. Every story is drawn as a unique tree that grows with the interactions it receives.
A chapter is the continuation of a story — the smallest building block, and yet the most creative one. Its title doubles as the action the next reader will see when choosing which way the story goes.