Con Posts!

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Hello my darlings!

Thank you again for each and everyone of you for showing up and contributing to the first Broadstairs Bacchanalia. I would like to remind you that the comm is open for any members to post con reports, photos (check with individuals first and place any pictures of people under flock) and details about your talks, links to anything you might have mentioned.

I'm going to start later today and provide some summaries of my talks and pimps (yes, including the photos hah).

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How To Survive Co-Authoring (kat_lair & pushkin666)

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How To Survive Co-Authoring
kat_lair & pushkin666

We've written a number of fics together hence being asked to do the talk...


Why co-author?

• Complimentary skills or expertise


• Two minds potentially (not necessarily!) better than one…


• Double the ideas (double the trouble…)


• Halve the research and work


• Easy to take different povs – writing as rpg


• Immediate feedback


• Learn from each other, develop new skills


• Fun!

Things to consider

• Do you really need to or want to co-author? Why?


• With whom?


• Will they be open to it?


• Can you really work with this person?


• Remember that best friends don’t necessarily make best co-authors…

• Are your writing styles compatible?


• Remember that the finished story should read like a single piece of work even with different povs

• Both goal and process should be negotiated together


• Agree on the story at least in broad terms


• Agree on who writes what/who


• Agree on how and when and how much re writing


• Communicate, communicate, communicate…

• Commercial co-authoring brings additional complications…


• Rights, profits, costs, credit, legalities…

Example 1. Co-authored 'verse
Plotted together, discrete fics written separately




Example 2. co-authored fic
Alternating povs - under the cut for length and to spare those traumatised by SCD RPS of Bruno/Craig *g*

( From notes... )

( ...to finished fic )

Useful links - I had a look around for advice out there and these were some of the better posts on the topic
http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/coauthor.shtml
http://alyssaauch.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/tips-for-co-authoring-book.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gina-buonaguro/how-to-co-author-a-novel_b_406306.html


Recs for co-authored fics... Sadly, I can't think of any of the top of my head although I KNOW I've read and loved some. Maybe you can help?


QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS WELCOME

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Finding Inspiration

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Taken from my preparation for my 'talk'.

We all pick up on ideas every day – whether consciously or unconsciously.  Something someone says or we overhear; something that happens to us; a picture, maybe something on Tumblr that a friend points out to us; an article someone suggests.  These things are as individual as we are.  We may choose to use them immediately; we may put them to one side for later use.

All of which is great and helps when we come to write, but doesn’t necessarily start us writing.  Here I’m thinking of the people like me who write short things, not those who produce the 100,000 word epics, or who write multi-chaptered fics where each chapter is 5,000 words long.  The most I’ve ever written is 14,000.  I’ve triumphantly written two big bangs over 10,000 words, but generally I write ficlets or fics up to 5,000 words.

Which means I need inspiration much more often.  So I’ve come up with some suggestions for what helps me and therefore something amongst the list may help others.

( Inspiration )

Behind the scenes at OTW/AO3

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I must start by saying I don't speak for OTW/AO3. This is a personal view, with no authority whatsoever!

You are welcome to ask questions and I can answer based on three years experience of working as a volunteer staffer but you must understand that I can't give you any confidential information such as names or actual cases and some of my information might be only partial or just plain incorrect.

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