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Co-writing a Book: Collaboration and Co-creation for Authors
Paperback
General ReferenceWriting Instruction
ISBN13: 9781912105922
Publisher: Creative Penn Ltd
Published: Jul 25 2019
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Co-writing can be an amazing experience when two minds come together to create something new in the world.
Or it can be a painful process that ends in disaster!
In this short book, bestselling authors J. Thorn and Joanna Penn share tips on how to successfully co-write a book and avoid the pitfalls along the way. It includes excerpts from their private co-writing diary, honest notes written every day on a fiction project that will help you on your own journey.
* What is co-writing?
* Benefits of co-writing
* The difficulties of co-writing
* Finding the right person to co-write with
* Before you start: written legal agreement
* Practicalities and process of co-writing and co-creation
* Excerpts from Risen Gods co-writing diary
* What happens if it goes wrong?
* Other types of collaboration and co-creation
* Tips for multi-author boxsets
* Tips for managing a multi-author collaboration
Updated edition with a new chapter based on a four-author collaborative novel.
* Appendix 1: Example agreement
If you want to improve your writing skills and your productivity, co-writing might be the right thing for you.
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