Collaboration: Real World Writers
Akua Duku Anokye
In the industrial world, in the corporate world, people are collaborating more and more. You have groups working on projects and they produce these projects and each of them share.

Janet Turner
The shift that I'm on there's Five officers. We operate under what is called the team concept…so we're considered a team… As far as report writing, you bet. Most of the time we write it, we each write our own report because we don't want to influence each other as, "hey, did… were there of these?" You need to think about what you saw and not get that from someone else. So it's not collaboration that way but we do check with each other saying, "Hey are you gunna cover this in the report, or…?" Because sometimes you don't need both officers to cover everything, so there's a lot of collaboration like when you have a…an accident…drunk driving accident. One officer will take the accident portion, one officer will take the arrest for driving under the influence.

Greg Liggins
When we walk into the news meeting in the afternoon it's a collaborative effort to come up with the evening stories. If I'm not shooting a story as well as reporting it then I don't have to really worry about taking the pictures. But I can write my story, give all the information to the editor, and then the editor can work on the story. And that's an hour I have to make more telephone calls or go talk to more people to find out if there's any new information. If I was actually physically editing the story, I wouldn't have time to do that. So sometimes… you just get better stories because you have more time and you can focus on fewer things.

Dorothy Wong
Putting together, a sketch like Spishak is definitely a team effort. It's definitely a collaboration all the way from, it does start with, you know, somebody comes up with the idea, all the input happens from the actors, the writers, the producers, occasionally I'll say, "Hey, do you want a close up of that?," "Which way should Pat be looking?," things like that. but definitely there's a lot of input all the way from the control room to the floor, even sometimes you know, some of our camera people might have some great ideas.

Chris Lowe
Collaborative writing in science is very common and it happens a lot. It's not something that you're necessarily trained to do. Basically we're trained to write as individuals and I think that's important. It's important to kind of develop your own style first. But once you reach a certain level in your science career, you have to learn to write collaboratively. And that's sharing ideas and putting it together so that all parties are satisfied with a concept that you're trying to portray. And that can be difficult, especially if you're working with people at different levels of their career. There's kind of a hierarchy that occurs. But the idea is that you can still feel comfortable with what you've written and everybody feels as though that the text that you've put together conveys the same message that everybody had originally envisioned.

Peter Farrelly
When I'm writing a screenplay, I find it much easier to collaborate than to write alone. In fact I tried to write a screenplay alone one time when I was on vacation. I had a very hard time, particularly for comedy, because, as my brother put it, he says, "Well if you come up with a joke in your head you don't laugh. You don't…you think ooh oh, maybe that's amusing."

Bobby Farrelly
Try to get in there, 'cause… the second… she goes with him… it's like, hmm.

P Farrelly
Yeah, that's a great reveal of like, he's like [mumbles in character].

B Farrelly
Well I don't know if you bring it up there, but I just think he'd be like…

P Farelly
You gotta know why he's doing it, 'cause that's the funny part.

P Farrelly
If there's another guy there and you come up with a joke and you say, "How 'bout this?" and you get a rise out of him like he's laughing and or he says something to make it better and now you laugh…suddenly you're hearing the laughs…