![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If one person is waiting to hear back for next chapter, but their co-author is too busy and is left waiting when they are ready to move on with the story, it can cause friction. Make sure you know the other person’s writing style well so the reader doesn’t feel pulled out of the story with two very different tones-different than having two distinct voices, which can work very well because that can be attributed to the characters. We take criticism personally, but that has to take a back burner in the interest of writing the best story possible. Pick someone who is at similar points in terms of both their craft and career & treat each other as equals.īe honest if there’s something you don’t like. Here are some of my notes in case, like me, you think cowriting could be a fun, refreshing process that yields a unique story. That’s why when I attended utopYA2014, I made sure I attended the panel with Melissa Pearl & the mom and son author duo C.A. Cowriting a novel! Authors are known for being control-freak Jedi masters of our fictional universes. That’s how a beautiful friendship was born □ Now that I’m done with writing my 18 Thingstrilogy, I’m forcing her into another situation that seems just as counterintuitive to sharing your hotel room with a stranger. ![]()
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