This week’s featured article is “Collaborative Writing: It’s Okay to Play! by Jasper Ezekiel.” Get pleasure from!
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Collaborative writing saved my marriage.
Collaborative writing is definitely the whole foundation of my relationship.
Throughout the two years when COVID was at its worst, from 2020-2022, after I was doing school on-line and my husband (then-boyfriend) was going from job to job, we wrote a whopping 2000 pages collectively.
How did we do this?
By way of a shared ardour of writing and the wealthy characters we constructed collectively.
However wait, isn’t writing presupposed to be a lonely artwork?!
It doesn’t need to be.
Let me share a few ways in which I consider collaboration is important to the artistic course of.
We’re Already Collaborating
Have you ever ever known as up a good friend to complain that your plot isn’t going the way in which that you really want it to?
Have you ever ever advised a stranger about your e-book and thru the dialog, labored out a plothole you didn’t notice was there?
Has somebody ever requested you a query about considered one of your characters that made every part click on into place for you?
Congratulations! You’re already a collaborative author!
Writing, identical to every part else human beings do, is a social affair. It’s meant to be performed with different individuals.
With their enter, with their suggestions, with their help.
Even in case you are a lonely author with nobody who reads your work, even mentioning that you just’re a author to somebody in public is a means of collaborating with the world and letting everybody know, hey! I do stuff!
A Deeper Connection
Writing with another person is an effective way to type a deeper reference to them.
The plain instance from my very own life is the wealthy and deep historical past of writing between me and my husband.
As a result of each of us grew up roleplaying on message boards within the 2010’s, we each have a historical past of understanding collaborative writing.
After I entered the connection with my husband, we had been in an East Coast-West Coast lengthy distance relationship.
Writing collaboratively stored our love life alive.
If I couldn’t truly cuddle with him or purchase him presents, I may write about our characters doing it for one another, which was shut sufficient to the identical factor that we survived till he was capable of transfer in with me.
However collaborative writing isn’t just for romantic companions.
After I was a child and studying how you can write, within the wealthy days of actually exploring the written phrase for the primary time, I wrote collaboratively with all my mates.
We wrote fantastical escape tales about younger children who had been kidnapped by aliens, who had been secretly dragon princesses, who bought on a magical prepare that by no means stopped.
It was a stupendous recreation of faux we bought to do, engaged on our components of the tales in school and coming residence to put in writing collectively over the web.
It deepened my relationships with my mates as a result of we bought to go on wonderful adventures collectively whereas going to totally different faculties and solely seeing one another on the weekends.
You’re By no means Too Outdated to Play
Taking part in faux is one thing that’s onerous to do as an grownup, however play is an important a part of human residing, not only for children!
Collaborative writing is a suitable means to play faux with your pals.
Have you learnt somebody who’s a author who you wish to discover the worlds of?
Do you’ve got a good friend who’s by no means written earlier than who you realize can be nice at it?
Does your accomplice not have a artistic bone of their physique however loves to look at TV?
Attempt dropping them a line!
Collaborative writing begins with speaking about your character and your plot and when you might by no means make it to the web page, people are pure born storytellers.
I’ve by no means began a storytelling recreation with somebody that I do know and walked away feeling bored!
Play with all of the individuals you realize! Perhaps you’ll get a complete e-book out of it!
Whereas these are some nice causes to put in writing collaboratively, you could be questioning how.
Search for my subsequent article for extra data on some particular methods you may write collaboratively with the individuals in your life.
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About The Writer
Jasper Ezekiel is a poet and throughout author from the San Francisco Bay Space. He’s additionally an illustrator, a photographer, a fiber artist, a jokester and an enormous dork. His e-book of poetry is known as Good, Clear Mania and is accessible on a number of digital platforms, in addition to in print via Amazon.
Yow will discover him on Instagram @s8nicangel
Good, Clear Mania is a set of three zines that Jasper Ezekiel put collectively through the years of 2020-2022. These zines have been additional edited into completion to be the e-book you maintain in your fingers as we speak. Subjects of Jasper’s poetry spans from issues like God and like to a foul day on the ironmongery shop to a connection together with his cat proper earlier than she handed away.
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