Yes, it's so much fun!! Happy to share more with you and I may even write a whole post just on that. Maybe we'll share one of them and see if you can tell where each of us took up the story!
Co-wrote a zombie story with a friend of mine (back when zombie stories were a huge deal and The Walking Dead was watched by everyone). I learned a lot about my friend's affinity for action sequences (and how bad I was at writing them)! It was a lot of fun, and though we never really finished it, we learned a lot about each other.
We were each in the story, too, so not only did we learn a lot about each other's writing styles, but our families, pains, etc. It was like alternate-universe us went through a traumatic experience together, in a weird way. A whole lot of fun, since we weren't actually enduring trauma IRL.
Wow, Jen, thank you so much for sharing this. I love the idea that you were in the stories and that you moved through traumatic things without, as you say, enduring it in IRL. So fascinating!
It was an interesting experience! Bonded us as writers and friends a bit more than anything else I could think of would. He became like a little brother through it. Kind of weird to the outside world, maybe, but a weird that I think other writers could understand!
We were “responding honestly” to fictional scenarios and talking about our relationships with the important people in our families throughout the story. And it was kinda cool, too, because we were hanging out with our OCs in the story too. And since we shared the story back and forth, we had to get into each others’ brains to figure out how we think the other person would have responded to things and what they would have said about them.
This is sooo beautiful and I think you are right, Jen, other writers will understand! Thank you again for sharing, this has been so interesting and inspiring to hear.
I love that you are co-writing short stories, would love to hear more about that ☺️
Yes, it's so much fun!! Happy to share more with you and I may even write a whole post just on that. Maybe we'll share one of them and see if you can tell where each of us took up the story!
Co-wrote a zombie story with a friend of mine (back when zombie stories were a huge deal and The Walking Dead was watched by everyone). I learned a lot about my friend's affinity for action sequences (and how bad I was at writing them)! It was a lot of fun, and though we never really finished it, we learned a lot about each other.
We were each in the story, too, so not only did we learn a lot about each other's writing styles, but our families, pains, etc. It was like alternate-universe us went through a traumatic experience together, in a weird way. A whole lot of fun, since we weren't actually enduring trauma IRL.
Wow, Jen, thank you so much for sharing this. I love the idea that you were in the stories and that you moved through traumatic things without, as you say, enduring it in IRL. So fascinating!
It was an interesting experience! Bonded us as writers and friends a bit more than anything else I could think of would. He became like a little brother through it. Kind of weird to the outside world, maybe, but a weird that I think other writers could understand!
We were “responding honestly” to fictional scenarios and talking about our relationships with the important people in our families throughout the story. And it was kinda cool, too, because we were hanging out with our OCs in the story too. And since we shared the story back and forth, we had to get into each others’ brains to figure out how we think the other person would have responded to things and what they would have said about them.
Worked well, I thought!
This is sooo beautiful and I think you are right, Jen, other writers will understand! Thank you again for sharing, this has been so interesting and inspiring to hear.