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a reality of dualities
Apr. 22nd, 2010 06:52 pmFinally! An appropriate icon for an appropriate poll, for all your fanfic (and other) writers out there, just because I've been thinking about this for a while. I'm not doing this in ticky-box format; if you want to give some answers, go for interactive comments. It's the bestest way. :-D
We've all read books or fanfic that were gestalt-written - that is, two or more writers collaborating on the same project. (It's a fancy term for co-writing.) I'm not talking about those books "written" by the celebrity-of-the-moment - the product of a ghostwriter who gets little to no billing, with little to no actual writing flowing from the ostensible author. I'm referring to works actually written by two or more people (I say "more" but in my observation, it's generally just two people). But are you yourself one of these writers?
1. If you are NOT a gestalt writer, have you ever tried doing it? Why didn't it work out?
2. If you ARE a gestalt writer, do you remember how you got into it? Do you co-write with only one person, or do you shuttle among two or more writing partners (either on the same project(s) or on different genres, fandoms, pairings, situations, etc.)? Do you also publish alone, or do you only write with others?
3. What do you like about the process of gestalt writing, over writing by yourself?
4. If you co-write the racy stuff - you know what I'm talking about - do you find this odd or embarrassing in any way to do so with another person? If so, how do you manage to do so anyway? If not, how did you get over it? (You can elect to pick and choose in answering these questions, obviously, but this is the one you REALLY can skip if you don't want to answer it.)
5. What's your favorite beverage? (Every Inquisition should have a snack intermission.)
6. What part of storytelling do you think you bring to a collaboration that your partner does not, or does not as strongly (this is not to disparage, but to say "yeah, I know I generally do this bit better")? Obviously, what do you think your writing partner brings to the collaboration that you're weak on doing?
7. Is there anything you won't write with anyone else, that you will write on your own?
8. How do you and your writing partner write? That is, do you write back and forth via chat or some other online means (RPing in a community; etc.), or do you pass back and forth the document and each indpendently add whole sections/scenes without the writing "interacting" in its creation by talking, chatting, etc.? Essentially, this last bit would be round-robin, I suppose.
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We've all read books or fanfic that were gestalt-written - that is, two or more writers collaborating on the same project. (It's a fancy term for co-writing.) I'm not talking about those books "written" by the celebrity-of-the-moment - the product of a ghostwriter who gets little to no billing, with little to no actual writing flowing from the ostensible author. I'm referring to works actually written by two or more people (I say "more" but in my observation, it's generally just two people). But are you yourself one of these writers?
1. If you are NOT a gestalt writer, have you ever tried doing it? Why didn't it work out?
2. If you ARE a gestalt writer, do you remember how you got into it? Do you co-write with only one person, or do you shuttle among two or more writing partners (either on the same project(s) or on different genres, fandoms, pairings, situations, etc.)? Do you also publish alone, or do you only write with others?
3. What do you like about the process of gestalt writing, over writing by yourself?
4. If you co-write the racy stuff - you know what I'm talking about - do you find this odd or embarrassing in any way to do so with another person? If so, how do you manage to do so anyway? If not, how did you get over it? (You can elect to pick and choose in answering these questions, obviously, but this is the one you REALLY can skip if you don't want to answer it.)
5. What's your favorite beverage? (Every Inquisition should have a snack intermission.)
6. What part of storytelling do you think you bring to a collaboration that your partner does not, or does not as strongly (this is not to disparage, but to say "yeah, I know I generally do this bit better")? Obviously, what do you think your writing partner brings to the collaboration that you're weak on doing?
7. Is there anything you won't write with anyone else, that you will write on your own?
8. How do you and your writing partner write? That is, do you write back and forth via chat or some other online means (RPing in a community; etc.), or do you pass back and forth the document and each indpendently add whole sections/scenes without the writing "interacting" in its creation by talking, chatting, etc.? Essentially, this last bit would be round-robin, I suppose.
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