#The Journey to the West
An open-source effort to write the definitive english-language screenplay of the great Chinese novel.
##FAQS
Q: Who decides what gets included in the final script?
- A: The owner of the repository, Hugo O'Connor, will act as a benevolent dictator. If you want to become the benevolent dictator, fork the repo.
Q: Will we get paid?
- A: If the screenplay ever gets bought, we'll split the funds exactly according to how much each person contributed.
Q: How long will the final screenplay be?
- A: Too early to tell. Maybe four two hour parts?
Q: How long will this take?
- A: No idea. I plan to contribute 1 page per day. So, without any help it will take approximately 2-3 years for a first draft of say a four part series. From nothing to a finished series of scripts will be approx. 1000 hrs of work.
Q: How do I contribute?
- A: Read the novel (40hrs), learn how to use git (2hrs), become familiar with fountain (1hr), start contributing.
Q: What motivated you to make this an open-source project?
- A: I've been interested in doing something like this for many years, I love working with other writers. Journey to the West is such a fantastic, epic story that evolved out of folk stories and borrowed narrative from Buddhism and Daoism, it seems like a perfect fit for a community writing effort.