curious about collaborations

[ratcreature]

Are there any forums or communities for organizing author/artist collaborations that are not Big Bangs (or Reverse Big Bangs)? Like say a notice board where authors announce describe their WIPs and express an interest in getting a cover made or illustrations or any number of things (say a pretty map for your story with a quest or other world building stuff), or artists can post what they'd have an interest in illustrating or maybe propose their project ideas that would need an author as well as art, and then people could comment and find each other?

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[ratcreature]

I think the major problems with setting up a collaboration space would be what I mentioned to tassoss above. First, you would need a fairly large pool of writers and artists to have a chance that you actually find someone interested in your idea, even more if it was multi-fandom, and it would be hard for the comm not to die off in the initial phase (like artondemand where people could ask for art, that never really took off). Then there is the social problem of rejecting collaboration offers, and the problem of this kind of think making popularity even more visible.

I mean, it can be rather daunting to put yourself out like that when matching is not more or less guaranteed like it is in Big Bangs and fests like that. For example I have asked once in my journal whether someone would be interested in doing some writing for an idea I had, and well, it just got no reaction. In part it was probably just a problem of too small an audience pool to find someone, but otoh it's even scarier to ask something like that in big comm and then still have nobody interested.