{"id":306,"date":"2011-11-07T13:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/advanced1498.inmotionhosting.com\/~geargear\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-11-07T13:28:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:58:44","slug":"the-joys-of-co-authoring-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/the-joys-of-co-authoring-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joys of Co-authoring&#8230;or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All,<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, Mike and I co-author in a specific way. One of us drafts out a chapter, then the other moves along behind, editing, correcting and rewriting, which often proves to have amusing consequences.<\/p>\n<p>For example, yesterday I finished drafting the ending to THE BLACK SUN, and Mike immediately started reading it. This morning, I got chapter 46 back with a note at the top of the page that said, &#8220;You must have been writing for the Pulitzer committee. This totally sucks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;And it reminded me of the time he had his leading character writing a ten page suicide note at the end of LONG RIDE HOME. I got the wrinkled, tear-soaked pages, read them, and wrote in the margin, &#8220;Good God, Michael, we really want this guy dead now. Toss this and kill him!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the fascinating things about co-authoring is you have to have no ego, or you&#8217;re dead. Fortunately, we had shock-training twenty five years ago when we had a magnificient editor named Harriett. She used to write in the margins, &#8220;This is f&#8230;ing garbage, guys. You can do better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ah, the good old days. Harriett taught us to write with all our hearts&#8230;and without a shred of ego.<\/p>\n<p>So, back to the drawing board on Chapter 46.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Kathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear All, As many of you know, Mike and I co-author in a specific way. One of us drafts out a chapter, then the other moves along behind, editing, correcting and rewriting, which often proves to have amusing consequences. For example, yesterday I finished drafting the ending to THE BLACK SUN, and Mike immediately started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}