Author Crowdsources Short-Story Plot to Twitter

British science fiction novelist Neil Gaiman won’t have to brainstorm much for his upcoming short story — he’s outsourcing that job to his more than 1 million Twitter followers.

Paste Magazine’s Gage Henry reports that the Coraline author is “encouraging people to tweet in their 140-character contributions for his next short story, which BBC Audiobooks America will later garner into an audio book.”

He’s mobilizing a large army of potential co-authors. Gaiman’s Twitter account (@neilhimself) has more than 1.2

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