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Ask HN: Will There Be a Market for Selling Outlines of Story?

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For instance, if you're a hacker, but also a writer of fiction, would you ever buy a chapter outline, for the purpose of reinventing & creating/selling your own Short Story Series?

(Maybe on the premise that an Original Idea (or series of them) may be worth a dime a dozen or so?)

To convey the question more clearly, the following is a preview chapter outline of a short story book I am currently working on:

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lit art outline

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1. Uncommons Gameroom

2. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

3. Heyday with Missy Moomoo

4. On Broadway

5. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

6. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

7. Shy Guy Seek Fly Girl

8. Online Dating

9. Visions of Joanna

10. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

11. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

12. Maddie Addie

13. “Best Milk In Town”

14. Nancy Whiskey

15. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

16. CBD Mallory

17. (available with one $1.00 purchase)

..

(etc, etc.)

//license CC BY-SA

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The idea is, the full outline would be available for sale. Is this a curious idea or not really?

To paint more of the picture, the license of the outline (in this case) would be a kind of copyleft license (the Creative Commons CC BY-SA)

Applying such, one could reinvent the chapters, & if one likes, sell the new collection commercially.

In terms of software, the CC BY-SA Creative Commons License appears to me the closest thing to how the GPL License would apply to fiction creative writing.

Is anyone aware of a better way to promote the creation of a 'copyleft' creative-writing ecosystem?

I know this topic isn't specifically code-related, but I want to contribute to an "operating system for story," made in the spirit of Linux. I don't know of a community of folks to better address this question than that of Hacker News.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts or discussion - jon

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