We worked from a detailed synopsis and whenever one of us got stuck, we discussed it over text messages. I needed a mental break from writing on my own, so starting a project with Nicole, one of my closest author friends, seemed worth any potential bumps in the road.īut surprisingly, there weren’t really any bumps. As Nicole mentioned, solo writing can sometimes feel lonely, and it can also be stressful when you have a deadline to meet. Authors may have different voices and writing styles, they might not agree on how to approach revisions, and so on.Īt the time, this made me nervous, but I’d also just finished the first draft of a different book that had been very difficult to write on my own. Maybe it was the specific search terms I used, but so many of the articles were cautionary tales about how difficult co-writing a book can be. I’m someone who likes to do my research before committing to anything (whether it’s co-writing a novel, trying out a new hobby, or something else entirely), so I read a good amount of articles about the co-writing process while we were considering it. This might sound silly, but the thing that surprised me the most about co-writing a book was how smoothly it went. You are also one of my favorite people to talk to, and I love that we’re getting to do it in the form of a blog post in conjunction with the release of a novel we wrote together!
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