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Question of the Day Part 5
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 27, 2012, 06:32:09 AM ---I can't believe this thread is 5 pages long already. lol
As far as collars, I honestly don't see myself as a collab type writer. I'm a little too anal about updating etc... It would drive me nuts to have to wait around for chapters etc... it's just not for me lol I did it once though. You gotta try things at least once.
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You definitely have to be on the same page as your co-writer about things like that. It doesn't work very well if one of you is really into it and the other isn't.
Rose and I tend to be on the same wavelength with our writing. When we started Song for the Undead, that was the main story for both of us, and we kept it going pretty consistently for over a year before we both got other story ideas and decided to explore those and make Undead more of a side project. It works well that way because when it's her turn to write an Undead chapter, I get to focus on my own stories without feeling guilty for leaving her hanging, and when it's my turn, she gets to do the same. But if either of us had nothing else to write and were just waiting for the other person to hurry up and get their parts done, it would not work out so well LOL.
mare:
--- Quote from: kevmylove on July 26, 2012, 10:30:11 PM ---I have another question...man I kinda suck at answering, but I have a ton of questions. lol.
Has there been an author or a story you've been skeptical to check out and once you do, you actually like it?
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There was one I had to read when judging the Felix Awards where after reading it, I was surprised at how much I really enjoyed it because it wasn't something I would have otherwise ever clicked on and that was Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon. I think the other one that pleasantly surprised me again because I had to judge it, was On the Rails. I mean it's everything I am classically not a fan of a historical AU romance lol but I was and still am hooked because of such incredible character development.
mare:
As far as sequels, you know I don't think I've ever just toyed with the idea before. The only one I kind of considered writing a sequel on was What Lurks Around the Corner because there's so many other things that could happen in that one, but I changed my mind when I figured out I would have to be the one to come up with all those things lol
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 27, 2012, 06:41:07 AM ---You definitely have to be on the same page as your co-writer about things like that. It doesn't work very well if one of you is really into it and the other isn't.
Rose and I tend to be on the same wavelength with our writing. When we started Song for the Undead, that was the main story for both of us, and we kept it going pretty consistently for over a year before we both got other story ideas and decided to explore those and make Undead more of a side project. It works well that way because when it's her turn to write an Undead chapter, I get to focus on my own stories without feeling guilty for leaving her hanging, and when it's my turn, she gets to do the same. But if either of us had nothing else to write and were just waiting for the other person to hurry up and get their parts done, it would not work out so well LOL.
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When I worked on mine I was working on others too but you know me and deadlines lol it was rough. I have a problem with that. lol I really do sometimes think I am in the autism spectrum because of some of my scheduling issues. I'm not even joking lol
Purpura Lipstick:
Hrm, collab partners besides who I've already worked with.....
I've lucked out with Steph because we typically share a brain when it comes to ideas for UT. We plan our our scenes and some of the detail but we don't really know how the other person will take some of the ideas. We've hit a lull in our writing for that so I need to go back and reread for the details to continue. 00Carter we have chats that are so random sometimes it's hard to believe anything gets done but from the randomness other ideas form.
I've tried to start collabs with other authors but we didn't get them off the ground. I am not sure who else I'd like to try to collab with.
I thought about a sequel to Amnesia...but it was so far fetched that it wasn't going to ever work. That was the only sequel I thought about but never started and I'm so glad I never wrote it.
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