I love collaboration. It can be tricky, yet so much fun. I used to collaborate with fellow writers when I wrote fan fiction. I miss those moments of sharing a Google doc and editing together in real time.
Like Phoebe I love collaborating, including the tricky bit. The experience of having created something together is singular. Finding that person is tricky; I wasn’t successful meeting a writer because I’m an artist who wrote a novel, but I’m happy with my perfect match in performance.
Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams won the 2022 Goldsmith's Prize. The fact that a work of fiction is seen as experimental simply because it was written collaboaratively is very revealing, since so much other writing is inevitably collaborative. There's something in the relationship between authors' egos and IP rights that is at play here, I suspect. Scientists tend to acknowledge the lockstep nature of their work, building on the work of others: as a writer I am dependent on all the books I've read. The next few years of LLMs and AI authorship should prove interesting in opening up this debate.
comedy is often two handed which is perhaps why it helps to have two people - writing with a collaborator is appealing but are you both working on the same thing or helping each other out when each gets stuck - or simply keeping one another company in the process of writing
I love collaboration. It can be tricky, yet so much fun. I used to collaborate with fellow writers when I wrote fan fiction. I miss those moments of sharing a Google doc and editing together in real time.
Like Phoebe I love collaborating, including the tricky bit. The experience of having created something together is singular. Finding that person is tricky; I wasn’t successful meeting a writer because I’m an artist who wrote a novel, but I’m happy with my perfect match in performance.
Diego Garcia by Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams won the 2022 Goldsmith's Prize. The fact that a work of fiction is seen as experimental simply because it was written collaboaratively is very revealing, since so much other writing is inevitably collaborative. There's something in the relationship between authors' egos and IP rights that is at play here, I suspect. Scientists tend to acknowledge the lockstep nature of their work, building on the work of others: as a writer I am dependent on all the books I've read. The next few years of LLMs and AI authorship should prove interesting in opening up this debate.
comedy is often two handed which is perhaps why it helps to have two people - writing with a collaborator is appealing but are you both working on the same thing or helping each other out when each gets stuck - or simply keeping one another company in the process of writing
'Work' is better. Spills over into other things.