Am I back? I don't know, ahaha

[todaythesamesky]

 But the thing is-- and I don't even know if I'm saying this right, but-- but, I was in a kind of music-y mood and was watching some youtube videos (like this one, where David Archuleta sings Fields of Gold, and wooooow, boy can sing) and eventually I got over to this, from the finale of the most recent season of The Sing Off, and anyway, both of

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[1010nabulation]

Those were gorgeous. *_* Thank you for sharing. I definitely know what you mean, too; when I used to sing in choirs I got that elated feeling of performing together and making something beautiful to share with the audience. I miss it.

I get a very similar feeling from collaborative writing, too, though. Like, I like writing fics solo but there's something about the back-and-forth between one or more other writers that makes it that much more fun. It's got an awesome element of improvisation, where you don't know exactly where the story is going. But you know wherever it goes you're going together and the whole is greater and more nuanced for it. Does that make sense?

[danbi]

Haha, you're like me! The short of my opinion is that I don't think it's possible to experience something like that in writing. Well, I guess I should say I can't imagine an avenue for it, other than maybe having a round of people read one writer's work - a collaboration on something like that, or watching a screenplay that gets acted out or turned into a movie

[herongale]

Ahh, I love that Coldplay song. I actually first heard that song in relation to an anime AMV for the movie "Brave Story," and it's been my go-to song for a lot of fanfic writing over the last few years.

But to answer your question: the closest I've ever gotten to something like that was back during my most active days in Fullmetal Alchemist fandom. There's a group of writers I used to hang out with pretty regularly in that fandom, and we did a fic writing contest a few times called "Iron Smut" which sort of had that kind of feeling to it. It wasn't collaborative; in fact, it was pretty much the opposite since it was a competition. But the rules were like this and what generally happened is that we'd get around four people to write in a timed contest while a group of spectators and judges hung out in chat and discussed what the writers were doing. At the beginning of the contest the writers would all be given a theme (in the one I participated in, it was a threesome competition and the theme was "building a family"). After the