We can work it out.
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Software for collaborative writing for a small team
I'm working on a writing project with a friend, and we're looking for some kind of (preferably cloud-based) project management and version control software so each of us can see how far the other has ...
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2answers
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How does joint authorship work?
I'm in the middle of reading Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, and it occurred to me that I'd finally found a good place to ask a question I'd been wondering about for years. How do ...
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What exercises will help me write my co-author's character?
I'm working on a novel together with my co-author, K. K's come up with this great character - a sassy were-cat name Garlic. Unfortunately, I'm having a really tough time writing for Garlic - K has a ...
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How can I keep up with my co-author's detail creation?
Keeping track of details invented for a work of fiction is never simple, often requiring writing bibles and continuity editors. But when two people are working on the same book simultaneously, then ...
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2answers
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How does collaboration affect a publishing contract?
A publishing contract is generally a contract between a publisher and an author; a collaboration seems to add an additional party to the agreement. I would like to know what kind of complications this ...
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How do co-authors' rights to a manuscript work?
When an individual writes a novel, he owns all rights over the manuscript until he starts selling those rights to others.
What is the situation when the novel is a collaborative work? How are such ...
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How do you avoid the problem of a collaborative work having separate voices?
I've not done collaborative writing before, but I've read several works, and sometimes the text strikes me as having a split personality: some parts were clearly written by one author, while others ...
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How do collaborating authors choose an agent?
If two authors collaborate, and each of them already has an agent - then who handles the collaborative work?
Do the authors decide to be jointly represented under one of their two agents? If that's ...
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2answers
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How do you track dependencies for your co-authors?
I and one or more co-authors, sometimes geographically distributed, are working on a set of related documents. Sometimes I will make a change in my part that has effects on someone else's part; this ...
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Proof reading service
I am looking for a proof reading service for my scientific paper. I am not a native English speaker. I have spent significant time on improving the writing, thus I want to try a proof reading service.
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First person with co-authors?
I'm rewriting a technical book that will list two authors: the original author and me. Much of the text has been changed and there are some informal parts where reader is addressed in first person: "I ...
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What's the best way to distinguish between co-authors?
I know a couple of people who are co-authoring a book, and they have been debating how to go about distinguishing between the two of them in their content. They have an outline of topics that they are ...
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How should I go with hiring an illustrator for a webcomic?
I want to start writing a webcomic, but as my talent as an illustrator is limited, I would only write the scripts and let to someone else the task to bring my script into picture. The only problem is ...
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Good books on writing for comics?
Me and a friend of mine has been thinking about joining forces and make a comic. She is an excellent drawer/illustrator while I perform better in the story/character/writing part of things.
I guess ...
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3answers
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How to share the work, if writing in a team?
How to split up the work between the two. One writes the even-numbered chapters and the other the odd-numbered? Does everyone tell the story from the view of a different character or different ...
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Are there any places to have community story development?
Are there any places or ways a group (general public or individually invited) of people can individually contribute to a communally developed story?
For example, a website or collobaration tool ...
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Shared worlds: are there any good collaborative sites out there?
Writing is something that I have wanted to do for some time, and I know that I don't currently have the skill set to do more than putter. Are there any shared world story sites that exist? A ...
