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28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
Well, I participated in a big bang this year, which resulted in awesome art for my story, but I'm not sure that that ever felt like collaborating? Mainly because I generally imagine collaborating has to do with giving up having total control over how my story goes, and I ... don't.
I've always felt vaguely hypocritical about this, because, you know--I'm writing fanfic, I'm picking up someone else's story and reworking it into my story. But I don't care who else writes what, or even what anyone reworks my story into, later on. Just, while I'm writing, it needs to be my story, and while I will tell it to a lot of people, and while there's a lot of input I do gratefully accept at pretty much all phases... it still has to be my story while I'm writing it or I just freeze up completely.
I'm trying to get better about this, mainly because it feels like a moral failing of some kind not to be able to collaborate in the myriad ways people seem to do all around me in fandom, but that's me. Closely though I work with betas and much though I talk stories out with people, I don't think I've ever really collaborated with anyone on anything.
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Well, I participated in a big bang this year, which resulted in awesome art for my story, but I'm not sure that that ever felt like collaborating? Mainly because I generally imagine collaborating has to do with giving up having total control over how my story goes, and I ... don't.
I've always felt vaguely hypocritical about this, because, you know--I'm writing fanfic, I'm picking up someone else's story and reworking it into my story. But I don't care who else writes what, or even what anyone reworks my story into, later on. Just, while I'm writing, it needs to be my story, and while I will tell it to a lot of people, and while there's a lot of input I do gratefully accept at pretty much all phases... it still has to be my story while I'm writing it or I just freeze up completely.
I'm trying to get better about this, mainly because it feels like a moral failing of some kind not to be able to collaborate in the myriad ways people seem to do all around me in fandom, but that's me. Closely though I work with betas and much though I talk stories out with people, I don't think I've ever really collaborated with anyone on anything.
( All 30 questions under the cut )