Theme: Tied Together
Word Limit: 2500
Submission Deadline Friday, January 25th by 11:59 PM Pacific
Voting begins: Saturday, January 26th, and goes until Monday, 28th at 11:59 PM Pacific.
Optional Secondary Objective: Cooperation
Here's how it's gonna work. Everyone who wants to do the secondary has to declare this in the thread until Thursday (January 10th) night (PST). I will then create random pair-ups and those two people get to write their story together. Pairs will also get double the word count, so 5000 words. Should we have an uneven number of participants we'll make a group of three and they'll get a whooping 7500 words to work with. The writing period will also be extended one week.
As for how the writing collaborating might work in general. I feel like the wisdom Cyan once shared still applies.
It probably depends most on the working styles of the two writers, but I'm envisioning something like this:
-"meet up" on IRC or google video chat or some such to talk through plot ideas
-hash out the basic structure of the story, divvy up resposibilities
-write the story in a shared Google Doc so each person can see what the other is doing/has done
-when it's complete, each writer does a full edit passthrough to get the voices to kind of meet in the middle
There are other ways. The novel Sorcery and Cecelia, which is an epistolary story where two characters exchange letters, was written by Pat Wrede and Caroline Stevermer literally just exchanging letters as though they were the characters, and then compiling them into a book when they were done. You might have multiple POVs where each writer writes one character's POV and they have distinct voices, and you trade scenes and comment on each other's stuff. You might literally sit down together and do all the writing as a pair (I can't imagine this working for me). You might both be discovery writers and go in different directions, then find a way to make it all meld.
Could be anything!
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