That's true. by
Neshomeh
on 2012-07-12 15:36:00 UTC
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'Course, three of the three of us had some clue what were were doing on that one, and had all been around a while, even if my actual PPC writing experience was close to non-existent at the time (a few false starts not really counting for much). And it still dragged on for... what, years, wasn't it? And never got finished properly, nor edited much. It's really kind of a terrible mess, if we're being honest. Totally fun to do, those times when actual writing was happening, but pretty messy all the way through. (I wouldn't mind going back and fixing that at some point, actually. I have a draft I'd started cleaning up back when it was still in progress, somewhere.)
Erm. Ahem. Anyway.
Point is, I don't want to misrepresent how easy it is to pull off things like this even with experienced writers on board, since given the history of other such group projects, it's a feat that we even got as far as we did with "Brown DragonRider." I agree it's important to remember the Rule of Funny, and that Team Newbie vs. Terrible Badfic could be done well (because anything can be done well), but that doesn't mean it's a good idea for these writers right now. "Wait until you have some experience first" is good advice, and "Wait until all of you have Permission" is even better.
(In the meantime, for a really good example of Team Tryhard vs. Stacked Odds of Doom, try Andy and Saphie's "Suedom." It is unfinished, alas, but worth reading anyway.)
~Neshomeh