Yes, most of us here are experienced writers(particularly those frequent posters at the FFL) and we find it demeaning to work together and take orders from some new writer who's too lazy to write his own fic we don't take too kindly to people abusing using our creative juices to fuel his own fic. Furthermore, you won't even write it yourself and yet you waltz in here and dare ask us ask us to write a fic for you.
Honey, if you'd actually read what he wrote/read my commentary instead of automatically jump on the bandwagon like you did for his fic thread (instead of, you know, actually thought things through and used the post report button like you should have), you'd know that he
does actually want to write part of it. The problem is:
1. He's only actually writing less than half of it. (My point in my first post and half my second.)
2. Beyond that, he's giving us a list of things he wants to have happen in his fic to get us to write for him. (Harshly put, but that's basically it.)
Which means technically, he's writing less than half the fic and dictating how he wants us to write the rest. In that sense, he's probably better off just writing the whole thing by himself to maintain control over what happens and get the results he wants. After all, a collaboration isn't this.
To be clearer, a collaboration is a fic in which two or more people get together to share ideas and write a story bit by bit in a linear fashion. As in, if you and I wanted to do a collaboration, we'd brainstorm together and then start passing the work back and forth between ourselves to add a little more to the story. We wouldn't jump ahead and write the sixth chapter without having been able to see what went on in the first. That's flying blind.
(And yes, I know this is a series, Bradley. The problem is that fanfiction just doesn't work this way. Neither do actual series, for that matter. Writers who work for a series usually don't skip around in the line of episodes, and as far as I know, they don't work solely from a shopping list. A series simply builds on past episodes, particularly if it's actually got a coherent storyline. It's exactly like trying to write a book but writing the sixth chapter before you write the first five. It just doesn't work.)
It's not even an issue of including tiny details like Chekhov's Guns and whatnot. It's an issue of whether or not you actually follow the planned plot or if you accidentally wander away and do something else. For some people, careful outlines and shopping lists work to help them move forward, but for other authors, the moment you outline your work, that's a guarantee that whatever you put down is
not going to happen in the chapter you're writing. For an egotistical example, for the past three chapters of AEM, I've planned on having a scene about Professor Oak and Tracey. Guess which two characters have yet to make another appearance.
As a side note, Xanatos Roulette is not a planned trope. It's a half-assed attempt to explain why parts of a story happened with a complete disregard to whether or not the results are logical just to make a character seem more evil. A Xanatos
Gambit is when the author actually plans that kind of stuff from the beginning.
But mostly, don't use strikeout humor to insult the newbies. That makes you sound stuck up. I mean, really? "We find it demeaning to work together and take orders from some new writer"? With only one fic published online (despite the fact that you're getting help to iron out the problems), you're not exactly experienced yourself. Keep that in mind before you imply someone else is a n00b. It's a long drop from the high saddle.
