Monolith has a very good idea. The idea of this story is good, however bringing the publishing / translation / copyright issues in here makes it a lot more difficult and a lot less interesting for many of us.

As for the published story, I think I'll drop out as well. I'm not interested in getting published yet, and if I did try to get published, it would be my own work rather than a collaboration. I'm going to leave my chapters up here, but don't include them in the published work.