A question for the writers....

[kellifer]

So...

If you have written collaboratively before or have thought about it, what would be the best approach?

Looking for ideas on how to truly write a mooshed story with someone.

Any advice/ guidance / war stories would be appreciated... ;)

Oh my god... remix/redux is really soon. Yikes!! Just got my s/d ficathon assignment and one of the prompts was something I've thought about writing for a long time so keen!

Comments

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

I haven't done a lot of collaboration, but when I have we ended up writing the fic in a locked post, and tagging each other. By which I mean, one of us would write a part in comments, then it would be the other's turn. We took turns editing it to make the style seamless.

For one fic, my co-author and I were writing based on an RPG we'd played, so we tended to each write our own characters, and then split up who wrote which minor character. For another fic still in progress, we're just writing back and forth and seeing where it goes.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... a locked post is an excellent idea... that's got me thinking... so much easier than emailing back and forth... :D

[eponin10.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Definitely easier. Plus, this way everything is all in one place. *g* scarlett_o and I have created our own, private fic community on LJ so we can do this. *g*