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Re: A General Question About Castle World
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Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:34:42 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Bianca Nebab writes:
> Okay, de-lurking to give you, My Deep Thoughts:
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> The idea to collaborate is very interesting but very difficult to pull off
> successfully without some fantastic artistic chemistry. Most artist-types
> seem to have pretty healthy egos so I suspect the list of those willing to
> give up major autonomy for the sake of a collaborative project would be on
> the short side. Then aside from ideological compatibility, there is the
> practical issue of coordinating. I don't think it's impossible but it
> certainly seems harder than a solo project. On the positive side, as you
> said, you can double/triple/quadruple/etc. your available resources (bricks,
> research, and ideas). I am not a CW member but the crossover potential
> seems to me the biggest but most appealing challenge.
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> My experience: I've written a collaborative paper for a graduate seminar and
> while parts of it were brilliant (my parts, haha--no, just kidding, though I
> am a genius--no, just kidding--did I mention healthy egos?), it was very
> uneven and you could kind of tell who wrote what. Though we only wrote an
> end total of 15 pages apiece rather than the 30 of individual writers, I
> think we put in twice as much work individually just to get the paper
> presentable, both of us arguing over form as well as content. I am pretty
> sure that if we had done separate papers, both would have been better
> written than our 1 joint paper, but then the painful experience of deleting
> one of your brilliant ideas because your writing partner just HAD to get one
> of hers in instead would never have happened. At the time, it was very
> frustrating, but in the long run the experience made me a better writer, as
> Shiri pointed out crossovers can do.
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> There are of course less invasive methods of collaboration, such as creative
> teams like in comic books. In fact, that is kind of how I imagine CW might
> work best, kind of like a "Marvel Universe" or "DC Universe" where
> crossovers between "books" could occur on occasion, though the individual
> balladeers would control their own book for the most part. Just don't try
> to Secret Wars it and you can avoid any major disaster for both reader and
> writer. Then again, I am not a CW member so it is easy for me to sit back
> and comment since I don't have anything invested in CW. I am training to
> become a professional critic, however, since critics are in high demand in
> all sectors of society, especially the arts. Anyhoo, I think there has been
> a lot already written about CW regarding the creative control issue so
> perhaps some research in the Lugnet message archive would be helpful.
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> Yours,
> binky
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thanks for the wonderful deep thoughts, binky! you and shiri (thanks,
hon! ~ especially nice answers!) have answered andy's question so well
already, there's not much more i could add. even though Castle World isn't
everybody's cup 'o tea, i do think we baladeers provide some amount of
entertainment for those looking in! (if nothing else, "get a load of
_these_ nut-cases who talk to mini-figs";-)
later ~ craig~
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| Shiri, binky, and Craig Well first off let me thank you all for your deep insights and thoughts on my questions. I appreciate you each taking the time (ecspecially Shiri and binky) to give me thoughtful and detailed answers. I have a much better (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Okay, de-lurking to give you, My Deep Thoughts: The idea to collaborate is very interesting but very difficult to pull off successfully without some fantastic artistic chemistry. Most artist-types seem to have pretty healthy egos so I suspect the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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