In preparation for The Duo Competition I thought this would be a good idea. This would run similar to Beyond Thunderdome, in the way that I think it could manage itself.
- Grab a partner. Any. It doesn't have to be the one you're paired up with in Duo.
- Challenge another team.
- Teams get a week to submit a draft to the workshop. Another week for a final draft. Then polls. The submission can go under any teammate's profile. One teammate can be a member, while the other may not be. Then post under the one who is a member.
- Use picture prompts (JPEGS, GIFS). Create a story about that picture.
- 2,500 word max.
- Each teammate writes a half, or you can mix it. Either way both have to put the same effort.
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Communication is key. Use Skype, Instant Messenger, Email, VideoChat, VoiceChat, Facebook, Messenger Pigeons, etc.
Thanks Panda. Bracchos and I had a lot of fun writing together. I know we are up against two of the best writers here with you and Alien. But even if we don't win, we had a blast. I have to review one more workshop item before having enough points, then will post it - hopefully later tonight.
No problem. I want to do this for fun. You guys are both great too, I've read both of your work. Which won't make an easy battle. I'm excited. The deadline for the first draft is Friday. I'm glad both of you had fun and I'm curious to see your story.
Which also brings me to another addition:
There are two options to write a story.
1. Tag Out: Which is when the first writer does half of the story. Then the other writer continues it.
2 Remix: When both writers fuse their writing throughout the story. A mixture of their own prose, vocabulary, etc. for the whole story.
I can change the names for types, but I want your input for these additions. You would have to put the style underneath the title.
Panda, for the two styles you mentioned, I guess we did a combination of both styles. One of wrote the first half and the other the second half. Then we went back and forth with the rough draft -- keeping just the one most recent draft in play at all times -- adding things and taking things out of each other's section of the story. You won't see a clear distinction as to who wrote the first and who wrote the second, I don't think, because we each ended up writing a lot of both. We kept discovering new things about the characters with each draft. Interesting.
I think you won't ever see exactly eye to eye, but when someone says, hum, i think this guy should
be more stressed out, you can say, yea your right let's make him that way. I pictured a charactere blond, but when my partner made her with pitch-black hair in the second go-round, i was okay with it. Got to be fluid, yes? It's like adjusting to many different prompts. Questin: Will jacks and charles be in competitoin for the same prompt?
So, me and Shepherd vs. Jacks and Charles. This is going to be ugly (by that I mean your faces. Your faces are ugly, J & C (Nah, that's just the competitiveness speaking, you are both strikingly handsome men IRL (I hope that comment doesn't undermine my aggressive stance as an opponent (Fuck it, we are going to murderlize you anyway.))))
so, erm, Pandaprompt?
Me, I love picture prompts. The gas station is a great one. May consider jumping in with a partner if somebody was itching for a fight. Everytime I finish a Battledome I think, "Enough. Gotta take time for other things." but I think I'm getting additced to the competitive sprirt. Gotta see if my Duo partner is game for a challenge.