one of the writers comes up with a relatively detailed outline; the other writer writes the actual novel.
Bleah. Really? Props to anyone who's done this, but I think my writing a novel off someone else's outline would be a recipe for disaster, because it wouldn't be my story in any way, so it wouldn't be the kind I tell well.
That's pretty much my take on it, too. Alternating chapters (as you mentioned and I cut because of LJ and it's length snit) would work better for me -- but there'd still be the question of editing for tone & voice. I think the only thing that should probably be done at the outset is deciding what the court of last resort is in case of dispute.
Well, that and the real reason to do it is for the money because the sales don't actually help you if you're the lesser name.
Sorry, I was using unclear pronouns. Not easier to write, necessarily; easier to deal with a communal sense of ownership when it's a given canon than when it's yours alone initially.
This is, I think, at the heart of many writers' discomfort with fanfic set in their worlds; the process of the original creation of canon isn't communal; it's intuitive and intellectual, and it changes as it grows -- but it grows internally, rather than externally. For media -- as andpuff pointed out, so much of the process of the original creation is communal it's hard to point at a single owner that isn't corporate. Actors will change things; writers will change things; studio execs will change things -- the finished product can bear little resemblance to the original script. Everyone has a hand in it.
I can't change or break things as the story also demands.
Come and play on the darkfanfic side of the force! They don't pay you, but you can change or break as much as you like. :)
LOL! Deadline hell being what it is, I don't have time to develop another hobbyobsession. Yet <g>.
With the Luna novel, there was a lot more conscious effort to achieve a certain tone and pace, and I have no idea if that will fly.
Is your Luna novel out yet?
No. It's scheduled for August of 2005, which I'm told is a firm date. The title is Cast in Shadow, and it doesn't look like the title itself is going to change. I have no cover art yet, but August is less than a year away, so I'm happy.
One good reason not to: it turns a hobby into a business.
*nodsnodsnods* Exactly. And of course, some people are already doing both -- though many of them seem to have guilt about the fanfic.
Two things there: time and the responsibility to earn money. Any writing takes time, and if you've set yourself two novel deadlines a year and one at least of those is very slow going, you do feel guilty spending words on fiction that someone else hasn't already paid you for. I think it's the sense of responsibility to home, family, and bank account that causes some of that root guilt.
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Date: 2004-10-21 09:27 pm (UTC)Bleah. Really? Props to anyone who's done this, but I think my writing a novel off someone else's outline would be a recipe for disaster, because it wouldn't be my story in any way, so it wouldn't be the kind I tell well.
That's pretty much my take on it, too. Alternating chapters (as you mentioned and I cut because of LJ and it's length snit) would work better for me -- but there'd still be the question of editing for tone & voice. I think the only thing that should probably be done at the outset is deciding what the court of last resort is in case of dispute.
Well, that and the real reason to do it is for the money because the sales don't actually help you if you're the lesser name.
Sorry, I was using unclear pronouns. Not easier to write, necessarily; easier to deal with a communal sense of ownership when it's a given canon than when it's yours alone initially.
This is, I think, at the heart of many writers' discomfort with fanfic set in their worlds; the process of the original creation of canon isn't communal; it's intuitive and intellectual, and it changes as it grows -- but it grows internally, rather than externally. For media -- as
I can't change or break things as the story also demands.
Come and play on the
darkfanfic side of the force! They don't pay you, but you can change or break as much as you like. :)LOL! Deadline hell being what it is, I don't have time to develop another
hobbyobsession. Yet <g>.With the Luna novel, there was a lot more conscious effort to achieve a certain tone and pace, and I have no idea if that will fly.
Is your Luna novel out yet?
No. It's scheduled for August of 2005, which I'm told is a firm date. The title is Cast in Shadow, and it doesn't look like the title itself is going to change. I have no cover art yet, but August is less than a year away, so I'm happy.
One good reason not to: it turns a hobby into a business.
*nodsnodsnods* Exactly. And of course, some people are already doing both -- though many of them seem to have guilt about the fanfic.
Two things there: time and the responsibility to earn money. Any writing takes time, and if you've set yourself two novel deadlines a year and one at least of those is very slow going, you do feel guilty spending words on fiction that someone else hasn't already paid you for. I think it's the sense of responsibility to home, family, and bank account that causes some of that root guilt.