EmilyMiller
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Help, help, my creative liberty is being suppressed!There's a "not" missing there, but otherwise no, you're not overstressing .
- Editor DJ
Emily
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Help, help, my creative liberty is being suppressed!There's a "not" missing there, but otherwise no, you're not overstressing .
- Editor DJ
I'd love to, but my schedule isn't very condusive to such commitments.Would You Accept a Co-Writer for your Stories and Why or Why Not?
It’s easy enough to fit something like this around other stuff. Unless you are on a rigid schedule.I'd love to, but my schedule isn't very condusive to such commitments.
Apropos of no previous post:
I think if you are going to co-write, you can’t view it’s as a battle between you. It’s like a collaborative board game, not a competitive one.
Of the two of us, I’m clearly the more highly-strung (not a gender thing, brain wiring) and @Djmac1031 is more chilled. But, that’s an over-simplification. He can be insistent when he feels it adds to the story to be so. And I can be “don’t sweat the small stuff,” despite it being my natural state to, well, sweat the small stuff.
It’s a process of accommodation, not a battle for control. I guess it’s a personality thing as to whether or not that is possible / desirable.
Emily
Not rigid, but I'm working for a startup, so it means occasional spurts of weeks of frantic work, interspersed with occasional and unpredictable free weekends, like this one. That means weeks where I can barely answer an email, and free time that comes out of nowhere and tends to get filled with things I've been putting off, like paying bills and doing yard work. I do try to write during them, but after weeks of not paying any attention to it, it is hard to get my brain in the right gear. I've been trying to write my April Fool's story all morning, with little luck.It’s easy enough to fit something like this around other stuff. Unless you are on a rigid schedule.
Hey,It's not like we've cowritten tons of stories.
We collaborate on many, sure. But the extent of that collaboration varies, depending.
We've obviously put a lot of thought and had long, detailed discussions when it comes to the shared Angels & Demons universe.
But even with that, at the end of the day, we're both writing our own stories.
Other times it's even far less involved:
"Hey, just wrote this, what do you think?"
"Looks great. May need X and Y. "
"Yeah, I can see X, but I don't think Y would work, because Z. "
" True. Go with what you think works best. "
The two Traffic stories are the only ones we've actually cowritten. And neither are overly complicated stories. A cute couple, a traffic jam, some hot sex. Not too much to disagree over lol
I get that. My work has peaks and troughs. And I have a busy personal life, though my bf is at a work thing today .Not rigid, but I'm working for a startup, so it means occasional spurts of weeks of frantic work, interspersed with occasional and unpredictable free weekends, like this one. That means weeks where I can barely answer an email, and free time that comes out of nowhere and tends to get filled with things I've been putting off, like paying bills and doing yard work. I do try to write during them, but after weeks of not paying any attention to it, it is hard to get my brain in the right gear. I've been trying to write my April Fool's story all morning, with little luck.
Let’s have a public disagreement, shall we ?
Angels & Demons is probably more collaborative than many on this thread would be comfortable with. We’ve had to negotiate all sorts of stuff
If you have ideas on making it work, let me know. The Aces series can easily become a universe that many people could work in. It's kind of post-apoc-ish, though the original series is more at the beginning of a slow motion apocalypse.I get that. My work has peaks and troughs.
This is all true of my stories’ universe also. If people read my stories and have ideas, please share them! I am willing to judge incorporating them on a case by case basis. There’s also a lot I just don’t have the ability to write as anything but hand-waved convenience and summarized backstory, I’m increasingly having to admit. If another author can do things better, I’d be glad for their help.If you have ideas on making it work, let me know. The Aces series can easily become a universe that many people could work in. It's kind of post-apoc-ish, though the original series is more at the beginning of a slow motion apocalypse.
I have two sequels and a prequel, along with a couple of character sketches, with some basics sketched out. I've written opening scenes, almost-chapters, involving completely different characters than the first series. 20 years in the future, 120 years in the future, and 20 years in the past. But given my choppy schedule, they amount to little more than ideas now. And I have the conclusion/follow-up series to the original series outlined with about half of it written.
That kind of scattershot thing is what happens when I can't keep my head in it day to day. Lots of potential, but not much actual work getting done.
I'd hate for another writer to be waiting on me. I've taken procrastination to an art form and it just wouldn't be fair.