Way forward? - A Meeting of Minds

P'ter · Jun 18 2020, 04:57 AM

The number of active users of this forum is creeping back up after hovering in the teens for months.

But, there's very little activity to keep them here. So, to start off a discussion:

Was Anne right to invite other authors to collaborate in some books?

vyon · Jun 18 2020, 09:11 AM

I'd say yes. It's much easier to clarify your ideas when you can bounce them off someone else. But I've got a few questions of my own. Like, what was the nature of that collaboration and how much contact was there between the two authors. And, did the collaborations help the careers of the other authors? It could be a great type of apprenticeship scheme if it worked well.

P'ter · Jun 18 2020, 01:56 PM

In some cases it was done to promote writers Annie thought "Worthy". Some of them acknowledge that. Where I think it then went astray was, for example, Stephen Michael Stirling who helped her write The City Who Fought, and then wrote The Ship Avenged on his own. He tends to be a far darker writer and, like most male authors, tends to be technology-led rather than character-led like Annie.

mawra · Nov 22 2020, 12:15 AM

I liked The City That Fought. Never heard of the other one.

P'ter · Nov 22 2020, 02:54 PM

Jun 18 2020, 04:57 AM	#1
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Way forward? The number of active users of this forum is creeping back up after hovering in the teens for months. But, there's very little activity to keep them here. So, to start off a discussion: Was Anne right to invite other authors to collaborate in some books? __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Jun 18 2020, 09:11 AM	#2
vyon Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Wellington, New Zealand Gender: F Fan of: Harper Hall	Re: Way forward? I'd say yes. It's much easier to clarify your ideas when you can bounce them off someone else. But I've got a few questions of my own. Like, what was the nature of that collaboration and how much contact was there between the two authors. And, did the collaborations help the careers of the other authors? It could be a great type of apprenticeship scheme if it worked well.

Jun 18 2020, 01:56 PM	#3
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Way forward? In some cases it was done to promote writers Annie thought "Worthy". Some of them acknowledge that. Where I think it then went astray was, for example, Stephen Michael Stirling who helped her write The City Who Fought, and then wrote The Ship Avenged on his own. He tends to be a far darker writer and, like most male authors, tends to be technology-led rather than character-led like Annie. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

Nov 22 2020, 12:15 AM	#4
mawra Dolphin Friend Craftmaster Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CONCORD VA Gender: F Fan of: PERN Now Reading: Dolphins of Pern and Queens ow	Re: Way forward? I liked The City That Fought. Never heard of the other one. __________________ MEDDLE NOT IN THE AFAIRS OF DRAGONS, FOR YOU ARE CRUNCHY & GOOD WITH CHOCOLATE SO MANY BOOKS SO LITTLE TIME DRIVING SMART KEEPS YOU ALIVE

Nov 22 2020, 02:54 PM	#5
P'ter Crafter Craftmaster Join Date: May 2006 Location: Wolverhampton Gender: M Fan of: Favorite? Now Reading: avidly	Re: Way forward? Published by Baen in 1998; copyright 1997. __________________ "Truth is stranger than fiction: fiction has to make sense." Leo Rosten. "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." C. S. Lewis "I find television very educational. Whenever somebody switches it on I go in the other room and read a book." (attributed to Groucho Marx) The Pedants are revolting! (against bad grammar)

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