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A team of 10 relatively young entrepreneurs in Italy have teamed up to create something quite disruptive in the collaborative writing space. The four founders and six collaborators are all between the ages of 24 and 26. Their startup called 20lin.es is set to debut on May 10th during the International Book Fair in Turin.
So how does it work? Writers collaborate with each other in what co-founder Alessandro Biggi calls a 20×6 format. The writers collaborate on what 20lin.es calls a “pill”. A pill is a short story made up of 6 sections with 20 lines each, hence the name 20lin.es.
Biggi took some time to explain to Nibletz how this new innovative collaboration works:
“At any moment, 20lin.es selected users can start a new story by writing a (max) 20lines input that will stay active for 20 days. If other users like such input, they can decide to contribute to the story by writing a second section of max 20lines. More users can then decide to either continue the story by adding a new section or to re-write the previous one. In such a way, every input can be developed in a large/endless number of possibilities. Every story can have max 6 sections while each section can be voted, commented and shared by any user. At the end of the 20 days of activity of the input, there will be a 6-sections story with the highest approval. It has finally became a Pill and it will be digitally published. 20lin.es publications will collect 20 different Pills originated from 20 different inputs or the 20 most liked stories started from the same input. 20lin.es publications will be sold on: iTunes, Amazon and directly on 20lin.es
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