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Post by Rasaiu on Mar 10, 2021 5:11:18 GMT -5
No, really, how do you do it? :D
How does it practically happen?
Do you discuss the topic?
Do you divide who is going to do what and write individually?
Or do you work together at the same time, like on Google Docs?
I have wondered about it for some time. O_o
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Post by Kat on Mar 10, 2021 8:35:52 GMT -5
From experience (although it has been a LONG time since I did a collaboration piece for the NT), either we get the idea while talking, then discuss it in detail, then decide to write it together, or I would put out a thread asking if anyone would like to collab with me, someone shows up, and only then we figure out what to write together. Usually we wrote alternately, a few paragraphs each until it's done and we read back through the entire thing.
Before Google Docs, we'd use threads here on the forum (there are many threads like that buried deep in the NTWF) where we'd post alternately. I imagine nowadays you can have a shared Google Doc or do it on petpages or elsewhere, and there's nothing wrong with making a thread here instead.
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Post by Rasaiu on Mar 10, 2021 9:43:33 GMT -5
Usually we wrote alternately, a few paragraphs each until it's done and we read back through the entire thing.
Even though I can't imagine myself collaborating with someone on one fictional piece, I thought that it may be a way to help a friend. I was talking with this one friend who isn't interested in writing and all the competitions which relate to that and she said that she would like to submit an entry (ok, entries) to NT just for the sake of an avatar. So I thought that maybe collaboration would motivate her to work towards this goal. |
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Post by Twillie on Mar 10, 2021 12:38:37 GMT -5
I haven't collaborated on a written piece for the NT specifically, but for written pieces outside of it we would share a Google doc for the final version of the story, and we'd either write directly on it or copy-paste our personal contributions to it. These would be for roleplays, so our personal contributions were divided by our own characters' dialogue and actions, which may work for a NT written piece as well.
A more simple type of collaboration for the NT is between an artist and writer for a comic. The division of work is much more clear, where person writes the script and the other person draws it. Comic scripts are also much shorter than a written piece.
If said friend is completely uninterested in writing or the creative contests, though, I'd be careful directing them to collaborate with someone else. I'd personally be put off by someone who doesn't care about the product they make and only the avatar, and I wouldn't want to work with that kind of mindset. There may be others who have similar motivation of just wanting the avatar they could collaborate with, but when it comes to NT partners you just gotta make sure it's a fair and balanced collaboration.
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Post by Moni on Mar 10, 2021 16:27:28 GMT -5
i've collaborated before such that, for example, i do a very major **edit on the piece and help with the major story beats, but the other person writes most of the story itself. doesn't have to be google-doc style.
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Post by Rasaiu on Mar 11, 2021 5:36:45 GMT -5
I'd personally be put off by someone who doesn't care about the product they make and only the avatar, and I wouldn't want to work with that kind of mindset.
Well, in general, I agree. |
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