User blog:Deathwalker 13000/Still Alive

I would like to preface this by saying, "yes I am, indeed, alive. I've just been in a silent hiatus, is all."

Yet, despite being in hiatus, I have been giving our community and our canon some thought, and I think I have come to a realization.

Out of all the stories that actually get completed, I'd wager a good 99% of them are single-authored, and that the vast majority of our collaborative efforts are doomed to incompleteness. This upsetting truth is part of the reason I felt a need to step back from the wiki (I've also been very busy as of late with a full-time overnight job and no longer have a solid sleep schedule). We all have amazing, wonderful, inspiring ideas that can never leave our heads because we get busy, we forget to edit, we pursue new projects and let old ones fade into obscurity, and, of course, real life gets in the way. All in all, if we're going to continue our canon, we need to answer this question, first and foremost:

How are we going to fix collaborative stories?

I had an idea for an experimental canon- a separate universe from the one on this wiki- where instead of every user exclusively using their own characters and taking turns on editing a collab, all users share characters and edit at their own pace (similar to how the comic industry handles iconic characters with multiple writers- no one author owns and exclusively writes for Batman, for example). This allows other authors to continue making edits even if the owner of a character is in hiatus.

The problem is finding a way that this can work, since our schedules are unpredictable. Any thoughts?