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now let's talk about collaborations
Alexsgirl_ritz:
I would only answer the first two questions since I haven't collaborated with someone yet.
What are your thoughts on collaborations? Do you tend to take part in them?
I would like to try to see if it will work for me. I usually want to work alone but sometimes having another person full of ideas might be good, and might make the story better.
Do you enjoy reading them? Is is something you even notice when you are reading a story?
Yes. I love the stories where one author would write from one character's POV, and the the another author writes another character's POV. I enjoyed reading what Pengi and evergreenwrite r did. Because sometimes if someone write too many characters, there is no distinction among them. It was like they were thinking alike.
mare:
Oh, you saying that made me remember the one story I love by Kat and Amy Can You Keep a Secret. How could
I forget that, it's only one of my all time favorites? LMAO I suck at these threads but like you said Ritz, I think I enjoyed that one so much because when they wrote they tended to do it in the POVs which they felt comfortable with. Back and forth between Brian and Nick. (even though Amy was a Kevin girl lol)
Alexsgirl_ritz:
^I'm glad I made you remembered one of your all time favorites ;)
Carter-Orange:
What are your thoughts on collaborations? Do you tend to take part in them?
This month is the first time I've ever attempted a collaboration. Like Julie and Mare have said, when I was in school I never worked with anyone and hated the thought of someone having a say in what I did. I guess I was a bit of a control freak and wanted my work to be mine. I suppose deep down it was because I knew I could rely on myself to get it done. I was a bit of a perfectionist back then and wouldn't have wanted anyone messing up my grade A, lol, that and I've always been a bit of a loner. It's been a long time since I left school though!
But I do like collabs if they are done right and am looking forward to seeing how it goes with Kristal. Having never had to consider anyone else before, I just hope I do it right. I know Kristal has done collabs before, so hopefully she can help me out :)
Do you enjoy reading them? Is is something you even notice when you are reading a story?
Depends on the story. Take for example my favourite collab, Song For The Undead. It's such a well written and fantastic story, but not only that, Julie and Rose work so well together that you don't notice who wrote which part. I think it's important when writing a story that it flows well, and this is a perfect example of that.
How many people is too many when working in a collaboration?
Having not got much experience with collabs, I have no idea how to answer. I suppose it depends on the writers and if they are pulling their weight.
Who would be your ideal collaborating partner?
Um...I don't know, maybe Lore as I like her stories and she mentioned me (thanks for the mention Lore :) ) I hate answering this kind of question, what if the person I suggested laughed and thought 'no way', lol.
RokofAges75:
Thanks for the mention, Steph! That is nice to hear. One thing that has worked for us with Undead is doing what Ritz suggested and each of us sticking to certain characters. The difference is we started out with ten of them, instead of two LOL. But we split them up, so we each just had a few characters to focus on, and that helped them to be written and developed in a consistent way.
It helps that we've also always had the same vision for the story, and we've tried to make our writing styles mesh as well as any two different people's can. I'm glad you don't notice a difference when you read. That is definitely another advantage to just writing with one co-author; it's a lot easier to keep the story flowing because there's only two different styles merging together, instead of... many LOL. Even when we had three at the beginning of Undead, that was harder than it is now with just two of us.
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