Co-Author

robertl

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Is there a way for two authors to co-author a story and show both as authors, as well as showing the story in both authors profile page?
 
Is there a way for two authors to co-author a story and show both as authors, as well as showing the story in both authors profile page?

You could probably both individually submit the story and credit each other in the foreword.
 
It would have to be a chapter one/two. Two people can't submit the same story.

Is there a check for that? I mean, submitting the same story from two different accounts? Seems to be the perfect solution to OP's problem....
 
Is there a check for that? I mean, submitting the same story from two different accounts? Seems to be the perfect solution to OP's problem....

Formally through lit? I am not sure. Problems could arise however if readers think someone is ripping someone off(I know there would be an authors note, but readers skip those sometimes.

Plus at that point they are splitting the votes views etc...in half.

If they really want shared credit create a user name and post it under that with the note it was co written.

Maybe they could combine their names.

Like we could be

Strangelovelife.
 
Is there a check for that? I mean, submitting the same story from two different accounts? Seems to be the perfect solution to OP's problem....

I think Laurel would probably catch it, but if the authors informed her ahead of time, it might work out.
 
If both authors post their collaborated story: No, they can't use the same filename.

So maybe authors Ebc and Dic team-up on the story Futz! Ebc submits it as "FUTZ (with Dic)" and Dic posts it as "FUTZ (with Ebc)", maybe in different categories. Each version has a preface not pointing to the co-author's submission. Yes, comments and votes will be split. Are votes all-important to both Ebc and Dic?
 
Formally through lit? I am not sure. Problems could arise however if readers think someone is ripping someone off(I know there would be an authors note, but readers skip those sometimes.

Plus at that point they are splitting the votes views etc...in half.

If they really want shared credit create a user name and post it under that with the note it was co written.

Maybe they could combine their names.

Like we could be

Strangelovelife.

Oh, yeah. Now everybody will want to partner with me so they can be an adverb.

Strangelee
Lovelee
Craftilee
 
Oh, yeah. Now everybody will want to partner with me so they can be an adverb.

Strangelee
Lovelee
Craftilee

Not everyone. JB does not like adverbs.

And I could never work with anyone with "patient" in their name.
 
Thus requiring everyone around you to need twice as much. :D

I'd say I could tax the patience of a saint, but churches pay no taxes, because you know they don't make any money, especially the poor Catholics.

I once succeeded in getting a priest at a party to swear at me. I went home quite happy with myself.
 
I have a coauthor here for some stories. We have a separate account name for this and the profile of that references the separate accounts (and the profiles of the separate accounts references the coauthor account).

I don't think the editor will pass the same story in two accounts if she catches them.
 
That's not true. Go look and see how many stories have the same title with a different author. Go. Look.

But not at the same time and the story is not identical. Title is coincidence, there's hundreds of thousands of stories here.

This op wants the same story put out under the same name by two people and probably around the same time. That's altogether different.
 
But not at the same time and the story is not identical. Title is coincidence, there's hundreds of thousands of stories here.

This op wants the same story put out under the same name by two people and probably around the same time. That's altogether different.

So what do you think the database key is to a story? Go to your submission page, you can change the key to your story anytime you want. Of course you can't change it to a key that already exists.

How, when, what, where, who, doesn't matter. The stories are all keyed the same way...the title and if that title already exists a unique number.
 
So what do you think the database key is to a story? Go to your submission page, you can change the key to your story anytime you want. Of course you can't change it to a key that already exists.

How, when, what, where, who, doesn't matter. The stories are all keyed the same way...the title and if that title already exists a unique number.

I know it keys it differently usually with a number at the end.

But its still two different stories that just happen to share a title. Its not two of the same exact story as in content. Its two people who chose the same title and many times years apart.
 
You can't copyright a title. There are whole bunches of works with the same title. If the content is different, they aren't the same work.

I'm pretty sure that if Laurel sees the same content in more than one story, all but one version are going to be deleted from the story file.
 
I know it keys it differently usually with a number at the end.

But its still two different stories that just happen to share a title. Its not two of the same exact story as in content. Its two people who chose the same title and many times years apart.

It doesn't matter if the rest is identical, the key will be different. When you click on the title in the list, the link has the key which is passed to the PHP code to retrieve the item, no other information is passed to get the story, just that key.

That key points to the story in the database and only that story, not the story that posted the exact same day with the exact same title and the same description but a different author name. It points at the one the link had the key for.

Simple database design involved.

Oh and plt thinks we're talking about copyrights for a title. Moron.
 
The web site has given separate indexes to each story, no matter what the title is. No two stories have the same identifier in the system. Duh. Who's the moron now?

You've been off in LaLa land the whole thread, Zeb. :rolleyes:
 
The web site has given separate indexes to each story, no matter what the title is. No two stories have the same identifier in the system. Duh. Who's the moron now?

You've been off in LaLa land the whole thread, Zeb. :rolleyes:

That's what I've been trying to explain to Lc for the last hour and now you think you're going to come in here and say exactly the same thing and call me the moron?

Have you brains turned to shit? Are you forgetting thing lately? Maybe you have shit for brains. Or dickheads disease. Either one makes you repeat what other say and then you claim it as your own.

What a dickhead.
 
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Wow

I didn't really mean to start a fisticuffs here. As of now, it's just a rhetorical question. I do have an idea that I want to discuss with another author, but for right now, it's just hypothetical. Thanks for all the info. If the other author is interested in my idea, I may PM to Laurel and find out directly from them how it can be done.
 
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