Imagine if LOTR was on github...<p>I like the idea of modularization in fiction. This already happens in fan fiction, but you have to extract most of the parts yourself (I think?)<p>It would be really useful in SF/Fantasy novels where you have to build out lots of worlds, characters and miscellaneous details like languages, landscapes and history.<p>If you could "borrow" a lot of the structures that are in a Creative Commons license and use them in your story, you could focus on the parts that are important to you, and let others focus on what works for them.<p>Artists could come in, draw characters. Cartographers could make maps. App developers could make interactive features. Linguists could make fictional languages.