Protagonize is a creative writing community dedicated to writing various forms of collaborative, interactive fiction. One author writes a story, and others post branches or chapters to it in different directions. The result is an organic, evolving story where everyone can participate.

It’s a lot of fun and we’ve got almost 10,000 authors participating — check it out if you’re interested in this type of collaborative writing environment.

The site had worked like this: Any subscriber to the site could make up a basic story: set up the environment, suggest fundamental characters, assign a style, etc. Then, other members could subscribe to the story, either suggesting their own figures or choosing one of the basic set. Once there were enough players for the game, the story started. Players took turns in posting their scraps, only allowed to act for their characters. The story’s owner (creator) worked as a narrator, interlinking the scraps where needed, and also as a moderator of the story.

As I tend to such experiments, I enjoyed the service a lot. Maybe I will try to join one of those English-speaking interactive services suggested in the comments (hopefully, they won’t kill me for my non-native and therefore far-too-imperfect English).