La Vie De TKP: the rodeo chapter

It's time for me to speak up...about meat and milkshakes and mwriting! Look at my malliteration! Go me!

( The true meaning of love, cowboy style, is ... not really what's under this cut. )

So, I was talking to l_aurens and we got to talking about collaborative fics. I always thought it would be interesting to try one (sekrit message to a2zmom: OMG we have to!) but one thing I'm afraid of is that I'll be too picky and want to take over the whole thing. Anyone else have this fear?

Those of you who have written collabortive fics, how do you do it? One person writes one chapter?--How do you keep track of where the plot is going? (Or are you like, evil to each other, and leave a chapter with a cliff-hanger the next person has to resolve?) One person writes one character?--Then who writes the in-between stuff, and doesn't it feel back-and-forth? Who edits? Do you do it over im? How does that work, anyway?

And how have these experiences worked out for y'all? Did you quit? Did you keep going, dissatisfied, knowing you'd never do it again? Would you do it again? Was it an edifying experience?

And does anyone approach reading cowritten fics differently? Who reads them guessing who wrote what? (*raises hand*)