Co-writing leads to a lot of arguments and story elements that one of the writers might not want.

For something like fan-fiction where you’d be using a third party’s materials, I could see co-writing being feasible because neither co-writer could claim to have more “ownership”(for lack of a better word) over said materials.

Writing original fiction with someone else seems impossible, at least for me. I’m far too possessive of my own characters to entrust them to someone else. You’d have to really, really respect your co-author’s abilities, to the point of conceding that they exceed your own. Even then, it doesn’t seem very tolerable to me.

I used to co-write a fair amount of original fiction with a friend, and it was fun at the time. It probably helped that we wrote in a shared universe, and that we mostly wrote from our own characters’ perspectives. That being said, I don’t think I’d like co-writing now. It’s frustrating when your partner messes up your characters or reroutes the plot in a direction you don’t want it to go.

Writing is just something I prefer to do on my own. However, reviews, critiques and criticisms are greatly appreciated.

Ditto to that. I don’t trust other people to do it things the right way. Brainstorming with another person would make me uncomfortable too because I would be self-concious of coming up with something stupid. If it’s stupid, I will figure it out quickly, but I don’t need other people knowing that I had this idiotic idea that I thought was really good at one time. Mostly, I’d be afraid that they’d screw it up. I’ve always hated group work, and this would be that multiplied by a thousand.

When I was ten or so, I was going to have my friend illustrate a book that was going to write. She wasn’t that great of an artist really, but we were ten.

I cowrote a story with a friend of mine. He doesn’t write any more, but it involved fridges taking over the world and both us and our families turning out to have superpowers to defeat the fridge.

Crazy stories are most fun when co-written.

Emill, where are you? She had a couple of great points for the thread but I can’t remember what they were.

No. I would never say ‘a**hole’.

Plus, I would have introduced vampires a lot sooner.

I think you’d have to agree on an outline first. I’m the type who hates group work, but I think cowriting, in the abstract at least, would be good for me. It would be harder for me to reformat and develop ideas, but working with another person would at least keep me focused. Considering how unproductive I usually am, there’s no way to go but up.

See, I think co-writing could be fun if it wasn’t serious. More like when we get ideas here “ooh, wouldn’t it be awesome if Edward turned out to be a psycho who preyed on girls at every high school he attended, and Bella was only his latest victim?”

And then someone might agree, and then we’d shoot ideas back and forth.

Believe it or not, I’m currently co-writing with that girl. Nice, eh?

Well, that girl and my style of writing isn’t all that different and we’re very flexible. Plus, I’m more of an editor that comes up with good idea to follow through and that girl is the type to write and write and write and always comes up with BRILLIANT ideas.

Unless she has a different opinion, I’m inclined to stick with that description.

Is it actually possible to combine sci-fi and fantasy?

I think Artemis Fowl is a pretty good example of Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

The Dragonriders of Pern series is fantasy with a sci-fi backstory.

And Hawkmistress! claims to be this.

.... Ah. That awful book is actually sci-fi/fantasy? I can’t recall seeing any sci-fi parts.

If you dare to read the backstory you’ll see.

If I had someone with witch to co-write, I might consider on a trial basis, but I don’t anyone who writes IRL, at least not seriously.

Oh I see. Must find Hawkmistress in the library to read the blurb.