u/Gavagai80

Hi. I'm a prolific but not commercially successful audio drama writer/producer/director, hoping to find collaborating writer(s) who in a perfect world would become friends. Been at it by myself for almost a decade and am doing post-production for the third season of my fifth series right now.

It's time to start thinking about the next project. Before I go off doing my own thing again I'd really like to make another attempt at collaborating, because it seems like that could be more rewarding and fulfilling and also potentially more successful. Collaboration could be co-creating a concept from scratch, it could be bringing people in to write or co-write episodes (if the concept isn't too serialized), it could be adapting something you've already written. No script-writing experience needed. I'm keeping things entirely open for now.

I like originality -- I want every story I tell to be something that hasn't been told before and needs to be told, even if that makes it far less appealing to audiences than retreads of popular ideas. I normally write hard-ish sci-fi with a philosophical bent, but it'd also be fun to try something different. I'm open to comedy, horror, drama, mystery, thriller, maybe some types of fantasy, experimental, surreal, sci-fi, and maybe more. Romance as a strong element of a story would be desirable (I keep attempting that and failing) but not as the genre. I've tended to write idea-centric scripts with tons of characters, but ideally I'd like to make the next project more tightly focused on a main character or two. I think what I'm looking for right now is a pilot episode to see if it works -- ideally I might make a few different pilots and see which one works best, then carry the best to series.

I'd prefer to collaborate through google docs, email, and text-based chats. I do have Discord. Social anxiety keeps me away from voice chats although I won't rule them out entirely.

My writing often has a political aspect (even though that mostly stays in the background, not in your face), so it's important to know I'm towards the left side of the spectrum (the California National Party platform pretty much covers my views). I do often write about religion with an atheist's perspective, but I try to be charitable and don't believe a religious co-writer would present any problems unless you're extreme.

Show me something you've written, so I can judge if we're likely to be compatible/complimentary writers. Please be between 25 and 99 years old, any gender/identity, any time zone (I have a non-24-hour day so I virtually visit them all). I'm a 45 year old male, but not really a typical example of such.