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What is Collaboration Fiction?
Collaborative fiction is a form of writing by a group of authors who share creative control of a story. Collaborative fiction can occur for commercial gain, as part of education, or recreationally – many collaboratively written works have been the subject of a large degree of academic research.
While writers for TV shows, movies, comics, and graphic novels get to share the job of storytelling, novelists are mostly expected to make their narrative journeys alone. Trekking through the landscapes of their stories like lone warriors, novelists must find a path—or more often, forge a path—with no back-up and no safety net. Solving every problem and coming up with every creative solution single-handedly.
It doesn't have to be that way.
What if novelists agree to share the load? It turns out novels can still be unique and bold and engaging even with multiple voices, approaches, priorities, and ideas. In fact, collaborative novels can be even greater than the sum of their parts—a result of all that extra storytelling muscle.
However, if you think that having too many authors working would lighten the load. Then, you may be in a tight spot. I've often observed two writers with long-time friendships blow up because they thought collaborating would be "fun." Struggles over creative vision often erupt. The outline changes as the writing progress. And it might not even be good.
Writing truly is an intensely personal, and lonely experience. Sometimes, a writer eagers for camaraderie, and he thinks that team-collaboration is the solution. (What works with tennis players doesn't necessarily work with writers, folks!) But whatever.
Anyway, when I've first realized that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's light novel was created by different authors. I then realized that what if we, authors, in Scribble Hub would individually create a story for a single novel. I mean, wouldn't that be amazing? Come on, haven't that appeared on your mind? Well, there are upsides and downsides to collaborating and I sure won't like the downside myself.
However, what if we hold a competition on whoever gets to make the best chapter? Of course, the host gets to make the plot outline on what happens in chapter blah-blah and we are considered to follow through with it. The words would then be tightly locked to 10k or whatever. Hell, it might even look like we are going to create the best collaboration novel!
...Or so, I think we might if it happens.
But then again, it's not impossible to do it but it's difficult. What are your thoughts on these? Are there things you want to point out to make collaborations more exciting? Is there something you could add that I am missing?
Collaborative fiction is a form of writing by a group of authors who share creative control of a story. Collaborative fiction can occur for commercial gain, as part of education, or recreationally – many collaboratively written works have been the subject of a large degree of academic research.
While writers for TV shows, movies, comics, and graphic novels get to share the job of storytelling, novelists are mostly expected to make their narrative journeys alone. Trekking through the landscapes of their stories like lone warriors, novelists must find a path—or more often, forge a path—with no back-up and no safety net. Solving every problem and coming up with every creative solution single-handedly.
It doesn't have to be that way.
What if novelists agree to share the load? It turns out novels can still be unique and bold and engaging even with multiple voices, approaches, priorities, and ideas. In fact, collaborative novels can be even greater than the sum of their parts—a result of all that extra storytelling muscle.
However, if you think that having too many authors working would lighten the load. Then, you may be in a tight spot. I've often observed two writers with long-time friendships blow up because they thought collaborating would be "fun." Struggles over creative vision often erupt. The outline changes as the writing progress. And it might not even be good.
Writing truly is an intensely personal, and lonely experience. Sometimes, a writer eagers for camaraderie, and he thinks that team-collaboration is the solution. (What works with tennis players doesn't necessarily work with writers, folks!) But whatever.
Anyway, when I've first realized that Jojo's Bizarre Adventure's light novel was created by different authors. I then realized that what if we, authors, in Scribble Hub would individually create a story for a single novel. I mean, wouldn't that be amazing? Come on, haven't that appeared on your mind? Well, there are upsides and downsides to collaborating and I sure won't like the downside myself.
However, what if we hold a competition on whoever gets to make the best chapter? Of course, the host gets to make the plot outline on what happens in chapter blah-blah and we are considered to follow through with it. The words would then be tightly locked to 10k or whatever. Hell, it might even look like we are going to create the best collaboration novel!
...Or so, I think we might if it happens.
But then again, it's not impossible to do it but it's difficult. What are your thoughts on these? Are there things you want to point out to make collaborations more exciting? Is there something you could add that I am missing?
I am gonna sleep so that I stop posting too many threads.
Why are you so evil? I thought we handsome people had to stick together.... wuwuwu...