[ SECRET POST #2479 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2479 ⌋

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Comments

co-authors

[(Anonymous)]

How does that work? How do you even find someone to write with you? Has anyone had any experience writing with someone else? How did you work it?

I'm just curious.

Re: co-authors

[pantswarrior]

In my case it's always been really good friends (or significant others) who I was RPing with. They take a character, or handful of characters, I do the same, we play out the scenes... and then when we're done, we take the base text we produced, and go over it to convert it to proper prose. And whichever of us does that hands it off to the other to make any adjustments they want to make, and we go back and forth a couple times until we're satisfied. Sometimes one or the other of us decides "this needs a little something extra" and writes a scene on our own that involves just our character(s), or a character that neither of us needed in the other scenes.

As you can imagine, the quality of the end result very greatly depends on the RP skills of the people involved. I have cowritten stuff that was largely OOC thanks to the other person viewing RP as a means of catharsis, and I have cowritten stuff that turned out pretty cool because we were both RPing with the goal of wanting to write a quality story together that other people might enjoy too.

Re: co-authors

[(Anonymous)]

I tried to write with my sister and some of my writing friends, but it generally doesn't function beyond brain storming.
I think you have to look for somebody you deem on a similar level, quality wise and style wise- plus both of you should be able to take a back seat and be ok with editing.

My sister sometimes just writes cringe worthy, it's really hit or miss. Something I'm like "woah, (where did that come from) that's brilliant" and sometimes I want to face palm. It didn't help that she hated how I gave her critique, even for simple things like spelling.

With my one friend we tried to do different POVs, which should have "met" somewhere... but she didn't like where I was taking my side of the story and said my part was too confusing. It seems like a good method though.

The only time collab worked for me was with a friend who didn't really write. She brain stormed with me and gave ideas, while I half ghost wrote/edited her parts as well. You can probably guess that I'm probably a too dominate for collabs myself.
That time it actually felt like it was worth the hassle though, we both contributed to something that was much funnier/more original together than the single components.

Re: co-authors

[tabaqui]

I've written with a couple people, one in particular that i wrote a *lot* of stuff with. We were friends on LJ first, and chatted a lot, and then decided to write. We basically talked on IM about what we wanted to write, the general outline of the story. Then we decided who would be writing what 'voice'. Then we talked about where we wanted the first chapter to go - where to start and what we wanted it to end up like/at.

(We basically wrote chaptered fic.)

Whoever had a good idea for the first line/bit got to start, then we'd just write until we came to a good point to stop and the other person would pick up and write. We'd trade back and forth, writing bits of various length, making sure we stayed on point and making sure we weren't swerving the story off into tracks that derailed anything the other person was doing.

It worked really well for us, we enjoyed the hell out of it, and i'll always look back fondly on those days and those fics.

Re: co-authors

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the people how it works. I've done it both by rping, and by - basically - you write this scene from your character's PoV, I'll write the next one and just...back and forth like that.

Re: co-authors

[caecilia]

go back and forth on aim