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Your opinion on collaborations..

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MellzBellz:
I prefer to work alone, but I can collaborate with the right people. We just have to be really close and pretty equal in ability. I've never collaborated before until Sexcapades and honestly its getting difficult, but that could be due to the fact that I'm on my 2nd cowriter. Right now the biggest problem is setting up time aside for us to work on it. I've just been really busy and Teri has had a lot of crap going on and of course our main focus is our own individual stories, so thats taking front seat right now.

How we cowrite is we kind of assign sections. Like I know I want to write a certain part and Teri wants to write another part. So we wrtite our individual parts and sed them back and forth adding lil things, taking things out etc... Until it comes together and flows as if it was just one author writing the whole thing.

Nijntje:
Alright, I figured I might as well answer my own questions lol ;D

I definitely like to write with others, for different reasons.
Their work helps me to get better at writing, because I wanna be half as good as they are, so it isn't that obvious that a non-English writer worked on it as well. Whenever I get stuck, I have someone to think with me and sometimes even write a paragraph after which I can pick things up again.
And last, it's just fun!

Ofcourse there are sometimes problems.. as for myself, the time difference can be a challenge. While working on PF, there have been numerous nights that I worked til 3am my time. So it can be hard to talk to my co-writer when needed. E-mail just doesn't always do the trick.

I agree with Kelly, it can be kinda nerve-wrecking. I too get very very very nervous when I post my part for 00Carter and tend to work on it for way too long, trying to get it just right. And the waiting on others or 'having' to write because others are waiting for me, can at times be a problem. But I manage lol.

Maximum amount.. dunno.. I think the group that works on 00Carter works.. over 15 might become a problem..

I'm working on 00Carter (as I said before several times lol) and Prevailing Fate.
I've had so much fun on both, but have been working on PF way longer and more intensely, since Chelsea and me took turns writing chapters/scenes. I remember the time we discussed the fate of Nick.. it was so funny, but only if you were there lol..

LenniluvsBrian:
I enjoy co-writing - you just hafta find the right person to do it with. I help ForeverRebel out sometimes with 'No Matter What' and Daydream & I co-wrote 'A Forgotten Nightmare' which I'm biased about - lol. I mostly co-write TMNT fics with Daydream, though it really started with her writing the first chapter or a fic for my one TMNT series, & it evolved from there - well, more like sky-rocketed! Lol. We've SO many unfinished fics & SO many new ones! The only one we ever finished was 'A Forgotten Nightmare' - haha! But it is great fun! I let her write most of the fic - lol. I usually get stuck & so enjoy reading what she wrote - especially the scenes where Raphael gets mad at my character - hehe.  ;)

~Lenni~

A-RokzStalker:
I'd LIKE to write a story with someone. I tried once with a friend of mine and I'd come up with the story idea about 2 years back and had been wanting to write it, so I figured that maybe with someone else co-writing it, I'd stick with it a little better. It didn't work out though, because I already had my idea of what was supposed to happen, you know? And my friend was throwing out ideas that I liked, but didn't really fit in with the rest of the story. So... that kinda ended, lol. But we're going to try and write a story with an idea that her and I both came up with together. Hopefully that'll work out better.

I typically don't like group work, because something goes wrong every time. But I'd really like to try and see if I can actually even get through writing a story with someone.

nicksgal:
I like co-writing I suppose.....

Back in the heyday of fanfiction my twinners and I wrote a bunch of stories on BSBBLVD... They're all gone now, what with the board changes... And I haven't heard from her in years...

Other than that, I guess it has to be the right story.... A lot of other collaborations I've tried have died, so... The story is what's important then.

Anything Rose comes up with is basically gold. :D Which is why I love 00Carter so much. Everyone together is really ingenious... even if it takes a while... Which I ought to write my parts up, but... Eh, I should probably post this in the group, actually. :D

Anyway, 00Carter=super special awesome! ;D

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