Thad_Langley
Dreamer
I'll write in quasi-bulletized format to make a long story slightly less long.
I'm writing a story that I really feel has a lot going for it. It's a story that I know the broad outline to, but am excited to see where I take it.
Let's say I have 70,000 words of book 1 in what I envision and have mapped out to (tentatively) be a 5 book series.
I believe I am handling the vision of this epic story well. I think I'm weaving the story together with all of the different characters from across a large geographic area. I know that the characters' experiences, conversations, victories and defeats are moving in the right direction.
But here's the rub: I am rubbish at painting individual scenes. I know some people will simply respond with "Just keep working at it!" But what if I don't have that skill in me, to match what I believe to be an epic story with the proper accoutrements that bring a story to life and off of the page? Should I waste the one skill because I don't have the other?
So I ask: Do any of you know if something exists where a writer in my position can find somebody to help?
I'm not talking about friendly help, though that's obviously welcome as well. I'm talking about a paid gig. To go through my story and make the scenes jump off the page. A collaboration, but where the partner jumps on board as a paid employee of the writer? Perhaps with a % cut of the final sales and a (secondary) listing as author to boot?
So I'm not necessarily making this offer official quite yet, but I want to test the waters and see if there is precedent.
I'm writing a story that I really feel has a lot going for it. It's a story that I know the broad outline to, but am excited to see where I take it.
Let's say I have 70,000 words of book 1 in what I envision and have mapped out to (tentatively) be a 5 book series.
I believe I am handling the vision of this epic story well. I think I'm weaving the story together with all of the different characters from across a large geographic area. I know that the characters' experiences, conversations, victories and defeats are moving in the right direction.
But here's the rub: I am rubbish at painting individual scenes. I know some people will simply respond with "Just keep working at it!" But what if I don't have that skill in me, to match what I believe to be an epic story with the proper accoutrements that bring a story to life and off of the page? Should I waste the one skill because I don't have the other?
So I ask: Do any of you know if something exists where a writer in my position can find somebody to help?
I'm not talking about friendly help, though that's obviously welcome as well. I'm talking about a paid gig. To go through my story and make the scenes jump off the page. A collaboration, but where the partner jumps on board as a paid employee of the writer? Perhaps with a % cut of the final sales and a (secondary) listing as author to boot?
So I'm not necessarily making this offer official quite yet, but I want to test the waters and see if there is precedent.