Comment on Crazy writing idea by scribbledink
It's essentially roleplaying at a massive word count.
Like all roleplaying, it's great for the writers and horrible for the readers. You might have fun. You could potentially learn a ton. But the story you produce is bound to have a broken plot, schizophrenic storytelling, and an overall lack of cohesion. So it's good for practice, but bad for your resume. Mind, it's perfectly fine if you want to do it just for fun and experience. Just don't expect that you'll turn out a masterpiece.
One thing I have seen done that tends to work out is when authors each contribute a short story to a single theme or overall narrative. Since each author's contribution is self-contained, it avoids most of the problems that arise when authors who don't share a mind try to share a story, but there's still the sense of building off one-another and creating a greater whole.
Like all roleplaying, it's great for the writers and horrible for the readers. You might have fun. You could potentially learn a ton. But the story you produce is bound to have a broken plot, schizophrenic storytelling, and an overall lack of cohesion. So it's good for practice, but bad for your resume. Mind, it's perfectly fine if you want to do it just for fun and experience. Just don't expect that you'll turn out a masterpiece.
One thing I have seen done that tends to work out is when authors each contribute a short story to a single theme or overall narrative. Since each author's contribution is self-contained, it avoids most of the problems that arise when authors who don't share a mind try to share a story, but there's still the sense of building off one-another and creating a greater whole.