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Collaborative Dreaming — From Isolation to Collaboration
This article is by Cassandra Rose Clarke.
Imagine a typical fantasy writer’s day. They wake up, have their cup of coffee, faff about on Twitter for a bit, and then settle down and begin to work. Their work, of course, consists of retreating deep into their own minds, pulling on tiny threads of the fantastic and teasing them out into the wonders that populate their stories. It’s a rewarding process, but a deeply internal one. Writing has been called a lonely profession, and writers themselves have the reputation of being deeply introverted, and therefore better suited to handle the hours spend staring at the unforgiving light of a blank Word document.
But What if There’s Another Way?
While I do consider myself fairly introverted, I’m not so misanthropic as to eschew the company of people all the time. So I was intrigued when Julian Yap of Serial Box first reached out to me about working on their new serial, The Witch Who Came in from the Cold. It would be prose, he explained, but the process of writing it would be more like a television show—with a head writer, and a writer’s room, and collaboration, collaboration being a code word for human interaction.
As an avid 30 Rock viewer, I had some idea of how a TV show’s writer...
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Collaborative Dreaming — From Isolation to Collaboration
This article is by Cassandra Rose Clarke.
Imagine a typical fantasy writer’s day. They wake up, have their cup of coffee, faff about on Twitter for a bit, and then settle down and begin to work. Their work, of course, consists of retreating deep into their own minds, pulling on tiny threads of the fantastic and teasing them out into the wonders that populate their stories. It’s a rewarding process, but a deeply internal one. Writing has been called a lonely profession, and writers themselves have the reputation of being deeply introverted, and therefore better suited to handle the hours spend staring at the unforgiving light of a blank Word document.
But What if There’s Another Way?
While I do consider myself fairly introverted, I’m not so misanthropic as to eschew the company of people all the time. So I was intrigued when Julian Yap of Serial Box first reached out to me about working on their new serial, The Witch Who Came in from the Cold. It would be prose, he explained, but the process of writing it would be more like a television show—with a head writer, and a writer’s room, and collaboration, collaboration being a code word for human interaction.
As an avid 30 Rock viewer, I had some idea of how a TV show’s writer...
Continue reading the Original Blog Post.
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