30 Day Fandom Meme Day 28

[leethet]

Day 28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
No. I don’t see how it’s possible! In fact, once I polled some people in HP about how they collaborated because I simply can’t imagine it working (even though it clearly does – many collaborations are just fantastic). I can’t imagine writing a story with someone else and either enjoying the process or having it come out well, even though I’ve seen that it can happen. Fascinates me.

In HP a couple of artists have done art for my stories (Lizardspots did a sort of comic strip, trekkiegrrl and yael created single scenes), not in collaboration but just because they felt like it. It's very cool to see how other people interpret scenes, and how close they sometimes come to what I was seeing in my head. I don't know if that's coincidence or simply that I described it effectively - you really can't know - but it's very cool to see how others visualize my words.

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Here's a piece I wrote interactively with Nancy:

http://file40.net/file40g/two_spies.html

I started it, writing the first paragraph. She wrote the second. I wrote the next four. Nancy wrote the one after that where Illya reflects. Then the interchange gets shorter and shorter as the guys begin to engage.

We knew our characters but we didn't know what or how they would interact with one another, what they would say or do, particuarly as they got drunker. But the exchange turned out pretty interesting and philosophical and we were so pleased, we followed up with a full blown novel.

[leethet.livejournal.com]

I need to go do yard work so I won't come back to this right away, but I definitely want to take at least a chunk of the story and dissect it, so to speak, to hear you talk about what felt right or wrong, how you knitted it together (especially - I can understand I write a bit of dialogue, someone answers in character, etc. - but what about the linking bits and plotty bits?), etc. - I'll be back!

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

Sure. No prob. If my reply gets too long, I'll cross-post to my own LJ.