Wife swap? No, fic swap!
Sep. 1st, 2006 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pezThis is probably one of the best or one of the worst ideas I've had this year, and I expect to be spat upon for suggesting this, but if you think I'm being stupid, just... ignore me? :D;
In response to friends' disgust at the amount of WIPs (the ones that aren't going anywhere) they have...
LET'S SWAP WIPS.
Sick of having 5 gazillion unfinished fics? Want to see how other people would write it? Click on the cut and find out more!
The conditions:
1) You offer some of your works in progress for other people to complete.
2) You take on some of other people's work in progress and complete them.
3) When you offer your WIPs, state whether you're giving the next author free reign, or if you want them to follow a certain plot you have in your head. Anyone who takes up your WIP has to follow your rules (pairing, story rating etc) - unless they ask and you discuss with them and make separate agreement with them.
4) For each WIP you offer, state how many new authors you want for it - if you let 3 other people write it, it may end up as 3 different stories!
5) Discuss with the next author what to do with the story, if you like. On the other hand, the next author can ask the original author questions but the original author is not obliged to answer or help in any way.
6) You cannot pick and choose who can pick up your WIP and who cannot. It'll be first-come-first-serve. However you can refuse if the new author proposes something not in your rules and which you do not want happen.
7) The finished stories can be posted to journals and communities as long as you explain the nature of the WIP swap and state that it is a co-written story with [original author's LJ name]. Link the story back to this post and the original WIP post where you've found it in the first place.
8) Anyone who steals ideas from this swap and posts stories as their own will be publically named and shamed.
If anyone likes this idea, I will organise the WIP posts... perhaps ask you to send me your WIP by email, with your rules, and then I'll post them one by one in my journal with appropriate subject headings and let people apply for them.
In response to friends' disgust at the amount of WIPs (the ones that aren't going anywhere) they have...
Sick of having 5 gazillion unfinished fics? Want to see how other people would write it? Click on the cut and find out more!
The conditions:
1) You offer some of your works in progress for other people to complete.
2) You take on some of other people's work in progress and complete them.
3) When you offer your WIPs, state whether you're giving the next author free reign, or if you want them to follow a certain plot you have in your head. Anyone who takes up your WIP has to follow your rules (pairing, story rating etc) - unless they ask and you discuss with them and make separate agreement with them.
4) For each WIP you offer, state how many new authors you want for it - if you let 3 other people write it, it may end up as 3 different stories!
5) Discuss with the next author what to do with the story, if you like. On the other hand, the next author can ask the original author questions but the original author is not obliged to answer or help in any way.
6) You cannot pick and choose who can pick up your WIP and who cannot. It'll be first-come-first-serve. However you can refuse if the new author proposes something not in your rules and which you do not want happen.
7) The finished stories can be posted to journals and communities as long as you explain the nature of the WIP swap and state that it is a co-written story with [original author's LJ name]. Link the story back to this post and the original WIP post where you've found it in the first place.
8) Anyone who steals ideas from this swap and posts stories as their own will be publically named and shamed.
If anyone likes this idea, I will organise the WIP posts... perhaps ask you to send me your WIP by email, with your rules, and then I'll post them one by one in my journal with appropriate subject headings and let people apply for them.
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:18 am (UTC)I'd have to have a hunt through my fic - it's sort of a matter of deciding which bits I'm *actually giving up on* and which bits are just... um... dormant. >_>"""
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:20 am (UTC)Yeah, I needa do that too. But might still post one or two that I might eventually work on myself as well, just to see how other people may write it............ >_>
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-01 11:30 am (UTC)Random person: *reads* .......this is just going to be gratitious PWP smut, right? You can't even finish a PWP?
Pez: >_>.......
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Date: 2006-09-01 11:48 am (UTC)The City was a seriously huge undertaking. I'm so impressed that you made it all come together that well. I can only imagine the pain of trying to get it to work... >_>
I have too many ideas and not enough attention span. This is definitely the problem right now. It's not as annoying as having no ideas at all, but it's still pretty bad.
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