It depended heavily on the rapport between me and my co-creator, but it worked pretty well for a couple of years and at peak we could gleefully write at each other for seventeen hours a day. We produced a couple million words of usable plot and character development and had a great time through most of it. I think I'm probably not good enough at Playing With Others to do this with arbitrary people, but you're worth a try, and if the finished product is clearly intended to be yours, I think I can back off on my steamroller tendencies.
I think I'm probably not good enough at Playing With Others to do this with arbitrary people, but you're worth a try
Hearing (well, reading) this gives me warm fuzzies. :-)
This community has a recurring interest in "rationalist fiction," and several members who are writers. I wonder if it would be useful to create a space where Less Wrong members could provide each other constructive criticism and encouragement on in-progress original writing projects?
Disclosure: I'm working on a sci-fi novel right now, and my regular circle of "beta readers" are fantasy fans and aren't providing much feedback on the new project. I am much, much more productive as a writer when I get steady feedback, so I have a personal interest in looking for something like this. Less Wrong came to mind as a community of intelligent, creative, forward-looking types who are likely to enjoy sci-fi.