thirty days of fanfic, day twenty-eight
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jlh(list of questions can be found at day one)
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28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
I did collaborate on one story for Team Jones for the Ship Wars. It was definitely an enjoyable experience, and really fun, but in a way it didn't really feel like writing. I didn't have a story that had lived in my head for so long I had to write it down; instead, I was trying to create according to someone else's vision. I never felt like it was my story really. It was sort of like doing a really heavy beta for someone else's fic. Which doesn't mean it wasn't enjoyable, but just that it wasn't like what writing is for me.
I don't really consider an artist working on something for my fic to be collaboration, because the fic is the fic and the art is the art, and at the end of the day we do what we want. The artist is inspired by whatever scene in the fic inspires them, and I'm lucky that they felt that way. But then they make the art and the art is theirs, whether it was inspired by my story or not. I wrote some the prose on the fake Variety covers that affectingly made for my STBB last year, but I still consider the art itself to be hers, because she made all the decisions about it, as she should.
Part of why I write fanfic is to write what I want, and part of the fun of it is to realize the vision I have in my head. I have a lot of fun beta'ing and helping people get their fic to where it needs to go, but that's not the same as writing. So I think I'm not a natural collaborator--I want all the control!
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28 – Have you ever collaborated with anyone else, whether writing together, or having an artist work on a piece about your fic?
I did collaborate on one story for Team Jones for the Ship Wars. It was definitely an enjoyable experience, and really fun, but in a way it didn't really feel like writing. I didn't have a story that had lived in my head for so long I had to write it down; instead, I was trying to create according to someone else's vision. I never felt like it was my story really. It was sort of like doing a really heavy beta for someone else's fic. Which doesn't mean it wasn't enjoyable, but just that it wasn't like what writing is for me.
I don't really consider an artist working on something for my fic to be collaboration, because the fic is the fic and the art is the art, and at the end of the day we do what we want. The artist is inspired by whatever scene in the fic inspires them, and I'm lucky that they felt that way. But then they make the art and the art is theirs, whether it was inspired by my story or not. I wrote some the prose on the fake Variety covers that affectingly made for my STBB last year, but I still consider the art itself to be hers, because she made all the decisions about it, as she should.
Part of why I write fanfic is to write what I want, and part of the fun of it is to realize the vision I have in my head. I have a lot of fun beta'ing and helping people get their fic to where it needs to go, but that's not the same as writing. So I think I'm not a natural collaborator--I want all the control!
