I've written collaborative fic two ways. Secretary we ended up writing a chapter each, all of us writing all the characters, and sometimes they got pretty long; so I'd do a 2,000 word chunk, pass it onto whoever was next/available and they'd do one. Sometimes they were longer/shorter depending on what we had to cover. We got together in email to discuss plot but for the early/middle parts we pretty much took it where we wanted and left it for the next person to develop because that was fun. Then it got too complex for that so we had to stop and plot :-)
Co-written, just me and one other, are usually quite tightly plotted before hand, two main characters, I take one, the other person the other and we split minor characters depending on who they're with in the scene. The tags are much shorter, sometimes a few lines, sometimes a few paragraphs, and we pass them back and forth, email or a private LJ post. I've written up to 5,000 words a day with Wesleysgirl doing that.
Editing we both do, taking it turns. One of us will read it through, pass a cleaned up copy over, get it back even cleaner.
I love co-written fics; they're fun, addictive, and you get an incredible amount done quickly. WG and I wrote our novel, 110,000 words of it, in five weeks. You have to be working with someone whose style is similar to yours and who writes at the same pace but I've been very lucky that way.
You can try and guess who wrote what, but with Secretary I can look at it now and really, truly not know if I wrote it as we developed a particular style for it that wasn't entirely typical of the way we write solo, just to make it match.
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Co-written, just me and one other, are usually quite tightly plotted before hand, two main characters, I take one, the other person the other and we split minor characters depending on who they're with in the scene. The tags are much shorter, sometimes a few lines, sometimes a few paragraphs, and we pass them back and forth, email or a private LJ post. I've written up to 5,000 words a day with Wesleysgirl doing that.
Editing we both do, taking it turns. One of us will read it through, pass a cleaned up copy over, get it back even cleaner.
I love co-written fics; they're fun, addictive, and you get an incredible amount done quickly. WG and I wrote our novel, 110,000 words of it, in five weeks. You have to be working with someone whose style is similar to yours and who writes at the same pace but I've been very lucky that way.
You can try and guess who wrote what, but with Secretary I can look at it now and really, truly not know if I wrote it as we developed a particular style for it that wasn't entirely typical of the way we write solo, just to make it match.