Subject: That's exactly what happened to me.
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Posted on: 2009-04-17 07:50:00 UTC
I liked Agent Iza, but she and Agent Sedri were not interesting to write together, so Iza was reassigned.
Subject: That's exactly what happened to me.
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Posted on: 2009-04-17 07:50:00 UTC
I liked Agent Iza, but she and Agent Sedri were not interesting to write together, so Iza was reassigned.
Supposing that I was quite lazy for a PPC agent, and though having created two agents, was loath to put them together. For my first mission (I'm allowed to ask for permission this Friday, woohoo), would I be allowed to solicit two other, already existing agents to co-author two different stories with me while I remedy the situation? Would I be allowed to keep on of these two agents purely for cowriting with another, or both?
In short, am I required to have my own partners for them?
It's pretty much free reign with your own folks. Don't see any particular reason you wouldn't be able to have two individuals working with others.
I'd probably be free to poke, if you liked…?
If you wanted to write two pairs, you could. If you wanted to write some missions with another person, some solo, you could :) I started off by writing two solo missions, gained a writing partner for my next three, lost the writing partner, wrote another couple of solo missions (one of which I wrote solo but borrowed (with permission) another Boarder's agent as a partner for my primary agent), gained a new writing partner ... and between us now Pads and I write nine agents, one of whom was in fact invented by July, and do/have done/are doing a fair number of co-cowrites with other Boarders such as July, Sedri, Lee, Laburnum ...
Basically the whole name of the game is to a) have fun and b) mock badfic. If you end up creating a veritable army of characters to do so and rope in as many willing participants as you feel the need to to help you cowrite, that's okay, as long as it's fun and it's funny :)
I started out with two Agents and planned two more. I then rescued three in my first two missions, and spontaneously created about fifteen more over the past four or five months, whom I still need to write missions/publish interludes for - both solo and paired up.
Not to mention that I've got at least one planned co-write with two other people, and probably more if the negotiations dont fall through.
...I was going somewhere with this, I swear... Oh, yeah. Basically, partner up your Agents as you please, co-write as you please, etc. There are no rules about how Agents work, and there are occasional teams of PPC writers - for example, as others have said, Jay and Acacia themselves, and Trojie and Pads. Others have teamed up on occasion, too - I recall Rilwen and Lycaenion doing a piece a while back, and I seem to end up co-writing a lot of interludes for my gang with Kgarrett.
Okay, rambly rambling ending now.
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or afraid for you. :P
...For the most part, I must admit. There's a rather less than pleasant guy who claims to be DIS, but he doesn't show up much.
The rest are lovely though. :D
Otherwise I might just recruit all of my Agents' tall ship friends. And family. Family alone would be 15 agents, if I add friends it would go up to 20 to 25 more. Not doable.
You could always create a few more agents yourself.
I started out with one agent, and I have four now. I still like my first agent couple the best. They have excellent chemisty. Or it could just be that the fandoms I've put the other agents in are just not that exciting to write missions about.
I just don't like them together.
I liked Agent Iza, but she and Agent Sedri were not interesting to write together, so Iza was reassigned.
You don't need to have two agents- just one is fine if you want to write a solo agent, and some people do write in pairs; the Grand Example here being Jay and Acacia, and a more recent example being Pads and Trojie.
You can find someone else to cowrite missions with if you like, or just do solo.
I started writing two agents of my own, but quite frankly, it got boring, and the only missions I've managed are co-writes. It's really just a question of what will get your missions done, and if you can find someone to write with.
Would you be willing to cowrite my first one with me? :D
-hopefulface-
I'm sort of dying of overworked-ness right now. The reason cowrites work with Trojie is because we're in the same time zone and can work together in real-time, and I think that'd be a lot harder for you. And my brain appears to be made of cardboard at the moment...
Could try, I suppose. It'd take a lot longer if we do it on LJ or via email, but it's possible. You might become very frustrated with me, though.