Most authors do not even consider the possibility of working together with other authors. They see this as being contradictory to being able to express their own vision. However, there are those that have produced collaboration fiction with great success. Where control has been shared successfully, the result can have a richness of many voices and sometimes surpass the efforts of each author working individually.
There are many different reasons for collaborating when writing. Writing groups often write stories collaboratively to help develop the skills of individuals. Academics often collaborate when writing articles. Experienced authors may come up with ideas that they feel would work best when collaborating with other published authors and these books are available for purchase, many of them from online outlets.
When working together in this way, as with any other project requiring people to work together, everyone has to relinquish total control. The unique skills and ways in which each individual works have to be taken into account. Each individual has to be open to encouragement as well as criticism. This can only happen if there is mutual respect. If there is a creative synergy between authors, this can speed the process of writing and increase the motivation of each person.
A major difficulty when collaborating is to integrate all the efforts in such a way as to produce a consistent style. In order to do this there must be a level of mutual respect and egos have to be put to one side. One author may have stronger skills in one area than another and it makes sense when collaborating to use the particular talents of each author. One author may be better at driving a story along whereas another may be better at working on finer details like fine tuning dialogue and settings.
In this type of project, the work is divided up in many different ways. Some efforts may involve only a limited amount of collaboration such as authors each writing sub plots and one person being designated to weave them all together. At other times, a general plot outline may be brainstormed at the beginning and specific characters or chapters assigned to each writer.
Authors can often be quite egotistical and this means that collaborations can be difficult. It definitely may require putting aside certain convictions and ideas for the sake of the project. As long as there is a mutual trust and respect, this is possible. Sometimes, however, it is the collaboration of strong, egotistical authors that may produce the best results due to the fact that they challenge one another and each person is pushed to achieve his or her best.
The world of gaming has resulted in some collaborative writing. This is probably due to the role-playing nature of many of these games where characters constantly interact with one another. Other attempts in collaborative storytelling have been done at online websites where a story is begun and then driven forward by visitors to the site.
Collaborative works have the advantage of the experience of all the voices involved. They can also suffer from the fact that more than one person is involved, particularly if there is no creative synergy, trust and respect. The best of these works are very good, offering the richness of many voices.
There are many different reasons for collaborating when writing. Writing groups often write stories collaboratively to help develop the skills of individuals. Academics often collaborate when writing articles. Experienced authors may come up with ideas that they feel would work best when collaborating with other published authors and these books are available for purchase, many of them from online outlets.
When working together in this way, as with any other project requiring people to work together, everyone has to relinquish total control. The unique skills and ways in which each individual works have to be taken into account. Each individual has to be open to encouragement as well as criticism. This can only happen if there is mutual respect. If there is a creative synergy between authors, this can speed the process of writing and increase the motivation of each person.
A major difficulty when collaborating is to integrate all the efforts in such a way as to produce a consistent style. In order to do this there must be a level of mutual respect and egos have to be put to one side. One author may have stronger skills in one area than another and it makes sense when collaborating to use the particular talents of each author. One author may be better at driving a story along whereas another may be better at working on finer details like fine tuning dialogue and settings.
In this type of project, the work is divided up in many different ways. Some efforts may involve only a limited amount of collaboration such as authors each writing sub plots and one person being designated to weave them all together. At other times, a general plot outline may be brainstormed at the beginning and specific characters or chapters assigned to each writer.
Authors can often be quite egotistical and this means that collaborations can be difficult. It definitely may require putting aside certain convictions and ideas for the sake of the project. As long as there is a mutual trust and respect, this is possible. Sometimes, however, it is the collaboration of strong, egotistical authors that may produce the best results due to the fact that they challenge one another and each person is pushed to achieve his or her best.
The world of gaming has resulted in some collaborative writing. This is probably due to the role-playing nature of many of these games where characters constantly interact with one another. Other attempts in collaborative storytelling have been done at online websites where a story is begun and then driven forward by visitors to the site.
Collaborative works have the advantage of the experience of all the voices involved. They can also suffer from the fact that more than one person is involved, particularly if there is no creative synergy, trust and respect. The best of these works are very good, offering the richness of many voices.
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