Icebreaker #4: The Venn Diagram of Collaboration: Where Do Performers Come In?

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This icebreaker was originally intended to be a series of interview excerpts, but due to time constraints the admins are opening it up as a set of questions for discussion instead. Please feel free to join in regardless of whether you are or have ever been signed up for the pod_together challenge, let alone a poetry project for this year.


Ever collaborated with someone else on a creative project? Share one or two of your favorite stories about collaborating - what surprised you? challenged you? delighted you?

Which do you think has a bigger impact on what it's like to collaborate with someone: the type of collaboration or the person you're collaborating with?

What tools / media do you find most useful for collaboration? Are there any in particular you would recommend to people attempting to collaborate on text or audio?

What's different about a writer-performer style collaboration versus, say, a writer-writer collaboration or a writer-artist collaboration? What kinds of expertise might a performer bring to the table, and what are ways writers might take advantage of that expertise into their writing process?

And bonus, just because:

What's the difference between between collaborating with a creator who works in a different medium than you and working with a beta or a cheerleader?