Writing with collaborator/reader

[MarlowBunny]

I have started a side project to write a story based on a reader's direction. It's a bit like the role play forum except that she just tells me what happens next. The entire plot/story is hers and will evolve wherever she takes it. I just do the writing and put my little spin on things. I have no shortage of my own ideas. This particular reader made some rare and exotic requests that don't do anything for me, but she is just so enthusiastic about it that I couldn't resist. The excitement for me is the voyeuristic thrill of witnessing her excitement through our collaboration.

We've just gotten started. I'll post the story with two author names if it goes anywhere.

Has anyone else tried this? I have always kept my writing solitary.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have started a side project to write a story based on a reader's direction. It's a bit like the role play forum except that she just tells me what happens next. The entire plot/story is hers and will evolve wherever she takes it. I just do the writing and put my little spin on things. I have no shortage of my own ideas. This particular reader made some rare and exotic requests that don't do anything for me, but she is just so enthusiastic about it that I couldn't resist. The excitement for me is the voyeuristic thrill of witnessing her excitement through our collaboration.

We've just gotten started. I'll post the story with two author names if it goes anywhere.

Has anyone else tried this? I have always kept my writing solitary.

I did not do a full collaboration but accepted a "plot" from a member in the story ideas section. This was a challenge as this was what i was given:
Twins named Dawn and Paul Dawn is a virgin oh and once Paul saved her life.
If you are interested in what I did with that fountain of information it is "An Anniversary to Remember" in my stories link.
Now the problem was another author i was frinedly with wanted a piece and we said it would be a chain. I left him his "opening" at the end and he vanished. Just this week isubmitted an edited verion with the closure ending it should be up in a few.

 

[sr71plt]

I'll post the story with two author names if it goes anywhere.

I don't think it's possible to post a story under two names (two accounts). I think you'll either have to open a combined account (which is what my coauthor and I did) or post under one account and give double credit in an introduction.

 

[Jake Marlow]

I recently wrote a long piece with another author about a husband who manipulates his wife into sleeping with a co-worker while he watches. The other author wrote it from the husband's 1st person POV, I wrote it from the wife's. It was interesting and I like what I ended up with, but there was a lot of aruging back and forth about the plot and the tone it should take. In the end, we separated the two parts. I think he his going to re-write his side to stick closer to his vision. It was a good exercise, but it was tough because I think we wanted to tell 2 different stories.

 

[sr71plt]

I recently wrote a long piece with another author about a husband who manipulates his wife into sleeping with a co-worker while he watches. The other author wrote it from the husband's 1st person POV, I wrote it from the wife's. It was interesting and I like what I ended up with, but there was a lot of aruging back and forth about the plot and the tone it should take. In the end, we separated the two parts. I think he his going to re-write his side to stick closer to his vision. It was a good exercise, but it was tough because I think we wanted to tell 2 different stories.

I think it would be an interesting experience (and probably interesting reads too) if you agreed to write two stories this way--one on your partner's storyline and one on yours. So, a double whammy--two different stories, each from two different perspectives.

 

[Jake Marlow]

I think the biggest difference of opinion we had was that the other author saw what the couple went through as bringing them closer together, and I didn't see it that way at all. I wanted to end with them in an ambiguous place, at best. So we really differed on how it should end. An interesting part is that the wife, Emily never knew about her husband's initial manipulation of the situation, so it never appears in my story. Someone just reading my story would never know that Ian, the husband, kicks the whole thing into motion.

It would have worked better if we'd both signed off on the plot and the ending before we started.

 

[Dylan_English]

Interesting. Just last week, I had a reader email me offering to do the same. I haven't decided whether I want to do it, though. Mainly for legal reasons.