Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration
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Jan 4, 2010
Writing Excuses discusses the highly requested topic of collaboration in writing, sharing their plans for joint projects and offering tips for beginners. They explore different methods of collaborative writing, including the James Patterson approach. The hosts touch on successful collaborations in science fiction and share insights on managing challenges in collaborative work.
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Comic Creation Collaboration
Comics collaboration is highly linear, with distinct roles like writer, penciler, inker, colorist, and letterer each contributing stages.
The writer finishes first, and each subsequent role builds upon and interprets previous work, with collaboration being a back-and-forth process.
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Collaboration Changed Art Style
When Dan Wells hired Travis as a colorist, his artwork style changed to better communicate light and shadow in the line art.
This change, driven by collaboration, improved the overall artwork quality.
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Avoid Collaboration as Shortcut
New writers should avoid collaborating just to delegate their weak points instead of learning to write all parts themselves.
Seeking collaboration as a shortcut is discouraged; develop your own skills first.
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For starters, let's clear the air. Yes, the first episode of the new year is also the last episode of Writing Excuses Season 3. And yes, we'll be getting Season 2 and Season 3 on CDs pretty soon here. Collaboration! This is one of our all-time most requested topics, and we're covering it now because we still haven't done much actual collaborating but we want to talk about it anyway. Why? Because we each have some collaborations planned (including one for all three of us, but shhh... it's still a secret) and it will be fun to talk about this again in a year or so and argue about all the things we got wrong this time around. But you should still listen to what we say here in our collaborative infancy. That way you can lord it up over us when we flip-flop after having attempted to work together. You should also pay attention when we tell you beginning writers why you should not be collaborating. And then we'll give you some procedural tips for when you decide to collaborate anyway. Writing Prompt: Write a story (all by yourself) about a collaboration which goes horribly, horribly wrong. This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/excuse for a free trial membership*. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. Read the fine print, please! Audible® Free Trial Details Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. A very small number of titles are more than one credit. Cancel your membership before your free trial period is up and you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing cycle. Any unused audiobook credits will be lost at cancellation.
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