Macro Science Fiction Prototyping
Macro-SFPs are larger versions of Micro-SFPs, occupying many pages of writing. They can be created in a way that is more reminiscent of essay writing (a single person conceiving and writing the whole text). However, there is a much more creative and interesting approach that involves dividing the writing task among a group of people who each write micro-sized segments somewhat blindly of each other (with just some small connecting information which is, itself, a variable).
It takes secondary inspiration from a surrealists technique called ‘the exquisite corpse‘, whereby a collection of words (or story fragments) is collectively assembled through each participant adding to a story in sequence, either by following a rule (where rule variations feed the innovation process, such as only allowing a contributor to see the last story fragment). The teams of writers may take any form ranging from pre-assembled groups of in-class students, to open crowds of Internet users (thus, being a form of crowdsourcing).
Such a probabilistic (or semi-chaotic) way of assembling stories introduces novelty through the generation of unexpected combinations of elements, which can be regarded as being akin to creative disruptions (as sometimes used in brain-storming) which, the supporters of this methodology argue can lead to innovations. Some regard this approach as a variation of micro-SFP writing since the sub-segments are of a similar size.