h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hello, i though that we could all write a book or short story together, we each give ideas on how to improve it as we go along, i dont want to be the main writing person cause im not the best writer, better just for ideas, once we have a good team together we can begin, once the book in complete we can each use it hopefully win some writing compotitions or sumthing,

who wants to join?

what kind of book? a novel? comedy?

I think this is a great idea, by the way.

i think we will wait for more people to join before we decide wat kind of book, say, do you know how to make a guild? like the spy society so that each member is writen down, i think it would be more oppropriate than this, we can just give the link to it from here, u know how?

why not make a guide entry that is not put into review and then tell everyone where it is.

Incog.

Sounds a good idea

It does. I'd like to help out as well

I. could; .offer' advice., on! Punctueation: and speling? : one thing though, if it is done on site, here, then it is all copyright BBC?

is it? so if we write it on here, we wont be able to publish it under all our names? that would kinda suck, i am going to ask my ace and see what he says

No, you can just add the researcher list to inc.lude us all

But the BBC would own the material

Good to see someone use their ace. Most researchers seem to ignore them

is not an ace anyway

so if we write a best seller we wouldnt get the credit?

I don't think there's much of a way around this. If we write it on the BCC, the BCC owns it. You could ask an italic...?

Any gurus out there?

or we could all get a program like msn messenger and do it through that

But then it would be an h2g2 project

couldnt we do it as an idependant project?

You could, but you'd lose a lot of h2g2 support. We could develop it here and send the page via email

but then wouldnt it still belong to bbc?

not if we don't put the text of the story in

If we made a page that said the basic plot and suggestions, the BBC would own that, but that would be quite useless to them, and not useful to us anyway

ive been reading the terms and conditions at http://www.bbc.co.uk/terms/

and this is what it says at number 9

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