Patent ID: 7810037

Claim:
A computerized method for creating a story by multiple collaborators being on-line users supplying content associated with a fictional story concept comprising: receiving the fictional story concept for the story, the fictional story concept including an indication of one or more editors that are selected to edit the story by an originator of the fictional story concept; determining whether the fictional story concept includes content that meets a predetermined criteria set by a party separate from the multiple collaborators and deleting the fictional story concept if the concept fails to meet the predetermined criteria; making the fictional story concept available for online access to enable the multiple collaborators to submit competing story content related to elements in the fictional story concept; accepting the received competing story content associated with the fictional story concept from the multiple collaborators if the received competing story content meets the predetermined criteria; determining selected story content from the accepted competing story content submitted from each of the multiple collaborators that is approved for inclusion in the story based on votes received online through a wide area network connection from the one or more editors and at least one of the multiple collaborators; creating the story from the selected story content that is approved; and deleting the accepted competing story content if the received votes have failed to approve the content.