I agree with your thought, or should I say, I don’t disagree. Both Jay’s book and mine are based on how-to, practical instruction and/or nonfiction. And neither one of us (I believe) is proposing a pure group effort, but rather a single-author effort that incorporates feedback and iteration from a reader community.

I don’t have an opinion on whether this method would work for fiction.

Best regards,

Dave

I’m skeptical of the unbook. While the concept clearly works for articles and factual materials (see Wikipedia), I have my doubts that it will work for a book, particularly fiction. In general group efforts don’t work well for creative materials. But you could prove me wrong, I suppose.