Questions tagged [collaboration]
We can work it out.
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Suggesting changes in cowriting
I am about to cowrite a song with a friend, who already drafted something. I want to suggest edits. I find some changes in the form necessary because we want the song to be in a different style than ...
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Project management software using Google Drive
I am currently managing a project with writers, Content Reviewers, and Editors.
The documents are stored on Google Drive. At the moment the process is very convoluted and is quickly becoming a bottle ...
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Proof reading service [closed]
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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How do I make a contract with multiple authors
Someone suggested that I should make a question on this. I am making a book with multiple authors and we're all under 18 and I'm wondering how to make contracts with them. Just to say I'm trying to ...
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How to identify your own so-called "darlings"?
tl;dr; It recently occurred to me that I don't have a good smoke test for identifying those passages we might call "darlings". It can be hard enough to cull even the obvious darlings, but it ...
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How to write a joint book with each writer writing a character?
I have been looking through various books with a dungeon being the main character.
Regardless of the book, however, the character had to gain a physical body in order to forward the plot, which I ...
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Co-author Trouble
So, I was writing a book with my best friend, and half way through - at 70,000 words - she decides she doesn't want to write the book anymore; but I still can. And we didn't have any agreements or ...
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Is there a way to license fictional characters, settings, ideas, et cetera?
I hope this is not too vague, but I'm wondering if there is a way to release fictional creations in a way that would allow other writers to freely use them.
E.g., let's say I have a fictional ...
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How do you posthumously credit the authors of public domain content in your adaptation?
My question concerns the author Ben H. Winters who has recently published several books with himself listed as Jane Austen’s co-author. Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters is one such novel ...
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Story by two people, but written by one... whose names go on cover?
My friend and I conceived of a story, a world, and set of characters. We started an LLC partnership so that this IP is split evenly. We then decided person B would write a book based on the story we ...
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Collect comments on a draft document online
I am writing a collective report and I need to collect comments on the final text. I know that there is a free Google Docs option for that and it is fine. But I would like to find a tool that would ...
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Original writing is lost when using other people's ideas?
Let's say you have a story about a fictional war on a futuristic world and you already have five chapters going on and you want to keep writing to get to the end but then, you're stuck because you don'...
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Shared World licensing fees
I have a world/universe that I wish to open up to other writers. However I am unsure how I should structure the licensing fees and rights of ownership over the world itself and what happens (basically ...
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How could collaborative writing in one world work?
I have the idea to propose a world and some initial stories and offer other authors online to add their stories to this world. Could that work and yield interesting stuff? How should it organized to ...
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How do writers keep track of the changes when working together?
Is there a versioning system like git, but for writers? If many writers work together, how do you insure that they're all on the same page. Do you have to hold several meetings where people mention ...
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Where can I look for a co-author? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a co-author to collaborate with me for a book. The ideas for the books I have are related to the topics romance, crime, and politics. I was wondering where can I find people that are ...
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Protecting your idea when working with another author
I plan to seek out another author to work on a school counseling book. What should I do to protect myself from another author taking the idea before we complete the project and publishing it as their ...
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Equipment for an Environmentally Friendly Writing Group
For many years, I was a member of a wonderful writing group where members met weekly, bringing multiple copies of their latest chapters for peer review. We would sit in a coffee shop and take turns ...
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A heading on a paper
When you are doing a research paper or a writing and you have two people doing it, do you put a comma before the and in something like... By Arielle, and Bella?
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Attribution of authorship within group reports in academia [closed]
I teach a senior design course for undergraduate engineering students at a public university. Our senior design projects are all team based, usually with three to five engineering students per team. ...
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How to maintain an unchanging tone to the narrative while writing collaborative fiction? [duplicate]
Three of us have just finished the first complete draft of our first attempt at collaborative fiction. While the plot and the story are tightly knit, we have are facing trouble in maintaining the tone ...
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Where can I go to find a co-author for my book series?
I am trying to locate a co-author for a book series I have planned. I have the basic premise and foundation done, and have written a rough "first page." But, even though I am a published ...
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Feature film and finding a co-writer
I've written a few scripts for film, but think I need to collaborate with someone. I always run out of ideas. Where would I find a co-writer?
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Interested in editing fiction novel as co-author? [duplicate]
I've written a fiction novel that is intended to be the first in a series of five. I have not edited to novel and want to know if any writer is interested in giving it a read and would like to edit/...
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How To Meet Fellow Writers Online? [closed]
So where are the forums, the groups, the social networks in which writers dwell in harmony and happy collaboration?
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