Collaboration (roughly the short history of my writing apprenticeship)

[alanajoli]

Yesterday sartorias posted about her recent collaboration with rachelmanija, and I thought I'd talk a little bit about my own experiences with collaborating. In some ways, I feel like I'm almost always collaborating on my storytelling. As a kid, I played a lot of let's pretend with my surrogate big sister and my actual little sister, saving the world as a space hero (

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[sartorias]

Sounds like a great collaborator!

[basseykay]

I like this post. It makes me want to try writing with someone, and I'm not even a writer!

[lyster]

*Big huge full blush*

You're really awesome to collaborate with too and I'm very excited about where the story's going and I think it'll work well and you've got a really cool grasp of subtlety and are a lot better at writing earnest characters than I am and I'm going to go hide now. :)

But yes! Collaborating is fun! Reading this has inspired me to write a similar entry, in a collaborative spirit - I'll see if I can get that done soonish.