Sordid Amok!#ScribesAndMakers Have you ever worked collaboratively on a creative project with others?
I've done art collabs with mixed results. The other cofounder of the press and I have talked about collab'ing on writing, but it hasn't happened yet.
bluestarultor#ScribesAndMakers June 21: Our next featured creator works collaboratively with their partner, often working in worlds the other created. Do you create work based on the creations of others (e.g. pop art, fan art, fan fic, etc.)? Why or why not?
I novelized a modded run of Final Fantasy, but for the most part, any time I end up trying to work off something that already exists, it becomes 200% better when I transfer it to an original IP. I think, honestly, that First Fantasy could not exist separated from the source material and that makes it very legally sticky. It adds a lot to it, but half the fun is poking at the series.
I have a whole Rant of the Moment in progress on this, honestly. Maybe I'll link it when it's posted.
Elyse M Grasso#ScribesAndMakers 22 Have you ever worked collaboratively on a creative project with others? How did it go?
Software engineering is not a solitary process, that went well enough. So did various SCA activities.
On the other hand, when I tried a literary collaboration, it eventually faded due to incompatible eccentricities.
Erotic Mythology 🌈#ScribesAndMakers June 20: How difficult is it for you to receive criticism of your creative work?
I usually love receiving feedback on my work. Of course it can hurt if it was a work that I was emotionally invested in and people don't like it. But most often, the criticism is there for a reason and I can decide I either don't care, I don't agree, or I see their point and change it.
#ScribesAndMakers How difficult is it for you to receive criticism of your creative work?
Criticism is easy because I don't care. Praise makes me uncomfortable.
#ScribesAndMakers Do you create work based on the creations of others?
Flann O'Brien's 1939 novel, At Swim-Two-Birds, is entirely populated with characters from legends and other fiction. It's a great novel, and an early example of metafiction.
I'm not very dissimilar to O'Brien, in that I do unconventional things to mess with the form - metafiction is one. My WIP is a rewrite of a story in the public domain. It's not fan fic - that's a genre in itself - but yes, I steal stuff.
Aurora#ScribesAndMakers 22/06: Have you ever worked collaboratively on a creative project with others? How did it go?
Actually I'm doing right now and I have done so before. Some of these collabs went fine others not so much.
Samantha Bryant (She/Her)#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Jun. Have you ever worked collaboratively on a creative project with others? How did it go?
I've been a part of enough anthologies to know I never want to helm one of them. Good Lord, herding cats is an understatement. A friend and I have been trying to collab on something for a few years, but can't ever seem to get our schedules to align. So far, no luck.
SuzyShearer#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Jun. Have you ever worked collaboratively on a creative project with others? How did it go?
See yesterday’s answer
amPennyfeather#ScribesAndMakers 6/21. Our next featured creator works collaboratively with their partner, often working in worlds the other created. Do you create work based on the creations of others? (Eg. Pop art, fan art, fan fic, etc.) Why or why not?
Uhm. Yes.
Right now I am doing a series of fairytale retellings, so my biggest inspiration is someone else's work.
Why? Well, because I like the stories. At least, the heart of them.
As a reader I genuinely enjoy retellings. I enjoy seeing all the different ways a story can be told. The ways it changes when the characters change. When the world changes. When the magic changes.
As a writer, there are things I want to see that I can't find - ways the story can go that I don't think have been explored in a way I enjoy. So I'm doing it myself.