How Many of My Fellow Writers Feel This WaY

[hotken51]

I was wondering if there are others writers that feel as I do. Is it frustrating for you to start a story with co-writer and you post first but days and days go by and no post from them. I feel begin a story thread it like anew creation that you want to see flourish and grow strong. I was wondering if I was the only one on here that gets frustrated as well. Love to read anyone's feedback on this subject.

I think the next time I start a story I will ask that co-writer can you be committed to this story. I don't expect someone to post several times a day but I think at least once a day or once every two days is not unreasonable.

I do want to say have worked with one person who a lot of you know. That person and excellent writer is Sinful_Whisper. She does not fall into the above category.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Thats not a feeling. Take notes.

Feelings are mad, sad, glad, afraid, tired, hungry, horny, sleepy, pain...GOT THE IDEA?

No wonder you were dumped.

 

[stephen55]

Another revalation from The Fount of Human Knowledge..

Thats not a feeling. Take notes.

Feelings are mad, sad, glad, afraid, tired, hungry, horny, sleepy, pain...GOT THE IDEA?

No wonder you were dumped.

And here I am, thinking that feeling frustrated was a feeling.

 

[Stella_Omega]

That is a problem when you rely on a cowriter, and the only real way to take care of that is to write solo.

 

[hotken51]

Clarification

I am going to clarify myself I meant do my fellow writers feel frustrated. Now maybe that will make someone else on this post thread happy.

 

[sr71plt]

Yes, I get frustrated--but mostly with my own impatience. I write quickly and my mind is usually off on something else to write while my coauthor is doing his thing--and then it's like jerking back into the past when I get the earlier piece back.

Don't know what you mean about posting, though. We don't submit anything until it's all written, reviewed, and edited. I always have to go back and do some retooling of a shared write after it's all finished to tidy up (and strengthen) the threads of the storyline and make everything consistent and relevant.

 

[hotken51]

That is my point exactly I am fast writer myself. I am going into the future ask someone if they can give the time to a story. I have several threads that are still active that people have not posted on for four or five days. I was just saying that is frustrating because if I write with someone I going to give them the courtesy and let them know I won't be writing for several days. When I write with someone I want that person to be as committed as myself to the story and if they can't do that I don't want to write with them.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I just dropped a co-writing project. My co-writer is of the vomit the words onto the page school, and she would simply send all those million words to me for editing. Tangents, and expositions, and breakfast conversations, Oh My!

If I am willing to spend a day via chat working with her, she will delete, compress and streamline-- but she can't seem to do it on her own.

Hotken, I guess you are talking about the RP forums, huh? mostly, the writers in AH are story writers, not RP-ers. I have tried that a few times, but just don't see the point of it...

I did want to join a fairytale RP, and the guy who was setting it up asked if everyone would commit to posting, in the way that you are talking about. But then... he disappeared.

 

[hotken51]

I feel that srp is a good practicing ground to work on my writing.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

And here I am, thinking that feeling frustrated was a feeling.

Frustrated isnt a feeling, anger is. Stay out of the Thesaurus; call things what they are.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I feel that srp is a good practicing ground to work on my writing.

Honestly, the best way to work on your writing skills is to work on your writing skills. RP uses writing muscles that don't really translate to "real" writing, IMO. A "real" writer usually needs to control the elements of the story, and rp does not allow for that. You are always at the mercy of your partner's notions and the plot gets tugged this way and that way, characters go off on tangents, arcs get discarded and although it's all fun for the participants, getting something that is satisfying to a reader is pretty tough. The only rp I ever published worked because I, mostly, wrote all the action in it-- and my partner agreed with my words and talked about how it made him feel-- he kept his input very limited; http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=309315

In doing other rps, I did get some plot ideas that I probably would not have thought of on my own. But turning those into stories wasn't so easy. For one thing, I have a problem with using other people's words when I am the author-- plagiarism is the Ultimate EEEVOL or something like that. Even when my srp co-writer very specifically gave me permission to use all the material.

 

[rgraham666]

It helps a great deal if the co-authors are very compatible in all aspects of their personalities and they are willing to cut one another a lot of slack. Expectations can be a killer.

They must be partners.

 

[sr71plt]

Honestly, the best way to work on your writing skills is to work on your writing skills. RP uses writing muscles that don't really translate to "real" writing, IMO. A "real" writer usually needs to control the elements of the story, and rp does not allow for that. You are always at the mercy of your partner's notions and the plot gets tugged this way and that way, characters go off on tangents, arcs get discarded and although it's all fun for the participants, getting something that is satisfying to a reader is pretty tough. The only rp I ever published worked because I, mostly, wrote all the action in it-- and my partner agreed with my words and talked about how it made him feel-- he kept his input very limited; http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=309315

In doing other rps, I did get some plot ideas that I probably would not have thought of on my own. But turning those into stories wasn't so easy. For one thing, I have a problem with using other people's words when I am the author-- plagiarism is the Ultimate EEEVOL or something like that. Even when my srp co-writer very specifically gave me permission to use all the material.

My "Big Boy Curious" is a story result of probably the only rp I've engaged in, and I think it turned out OK, but I think that all you've posted at the problems of rp--in relation to resulting in a coherent, well-written story--is true. In my case, the partner was supplying the "want" and I pretty much was supplying all of the "fulfillment." Still, responding to the independently voiced want expressed in near-real time by someone else was a kick and a half.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Still, responding to the independently voiced want expressed in near-real time by someone else was a kick and a half.

Rrrrowl!