Create a character?

[Darien Krain]

I love the idea of a group of people each creating a character to be used in a story written by someone else.
As in you would give the character bio, design and tastes, and so forth. Then this character would be used with the story of another writer as part of the greater arc.
Am in the process of writing a story centred around a group of assassins, their hits, and rivalry with another assassin group. Kind of a modern Iga vs. Koga....if you know what I mean, though I doubt it.....if anyone thinks it might, or might not, work let me know and feel free to contribute.

 

[sunandshadow]

It's tough for one writer to do justice to another writer's character. Also, I'm not sure why a writer would be motivated to write about other people's characters, when they probably have their own they'd rather spend their time on. But there is a website/project called the key game or the palace of keys which works like this. Every story has to be a gay romance, and each story is about one character, called a key, coming to belong to another character. People create descriptions of the key characters, then other people create an owner for them and write the story.

 

[BedtimeStories77]

I could see a group of authors writing a chain story similar to something one might find in the Sexual Role Play board. Written in first person, by the point of view of ONE character the author has developed. Each author would basically tell the same tale in his or her own words (as seen by that character).

 

[Fantasies_only]

I love the idea of a group of people each creating a character to be used in a story written by someone else.
As in you would give the character bio, design and tastes, and so forth. Then this character would be used with the story of another writer as part of the greater arc.
Am in the process of writing a story centred around a group of assassins, their hits, and rivalry with another assassin group. Kind of a modern Iga vs. Koga....if you know what I mean, though I doubt it.....if anyone thinks it might, or might not, work let me know and feel free to contribute.

I think you may wanna take a look at this site:
http://www.infinite-story.com/

 

[Seattle Zack]

A few years back, several of the AH regulars got together and did the "Snippetsville" stories, each one less than 600 words and written about characters and events in the same small fictional town.

It was an interesting exercise and eventually got rather involved, with a map and everything. We'd borrow other author's characters (with permissin, of course) for our own stories quite often.