tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post5517372027905022691..comments2023-10-31T10:59:03.023-04:00Comments on INKSPOT Crime Fiction Blog | A Place for Mystery, Mayhem, Writing and Life: A Perilous Cliff: The Dangers of Couples Writing TogetherLinda O. Johnstonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01512430135042480450noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-9551876684941837492007-05-02T14:50:00.000-04:002007-05-02T14:50:00.000-04:00Hey, everyone! Well, I'm not entirely comforted b...Hey, everyone! Well, I'm not entirely comforted by your posts, but they were funny.<BR/><BR/>Sue Ann, I'm sure I'll keep ya'll updated--especially whenever I'm frustrated. Joe, I wondered about you and Lynn when I wrote this post, but I thought, hey, it doesn't fully apply, because they're not married--but I guess that doesn't always matter, eh?<BR/><BR/>Mark C, I know exactly what you mean--Jeff and I also fight over who should get "credit" for a particular thing. How infantile are we?<BR/><BR/>Nina, that's pretty funny. Hopefully I won't be referring to Jeff as my "first husband" in five years, but Fate is unknowable.<BR/><BR/>Mark T--I heard a great quote once, which was, "There are people who talk about doing things, and people who do things." We writers, I guess, belong in the latter category, even if we believed in the first one at some point.Julia Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-52759402370186024602007-05-02T13:10:00.000-04:002007-05-02T13:10:00.000-04:00I've always thought it would be cool to work a col...I've always thought it would be cool to work a collaboration, but the couple times I tried to instigate it, I did something that I thought was an important thing--I told the would-be collaborator to bring me something. One for for a novel and I said, hey, write me a rough draft or an outline for the first chapter and we'll go from there. The second, which was a nonfiction book, they were the experts and I was the writer, I said, hey, put together a table of contents and we'll go from there.<BR/><BR/>Neither partner every did anything, which proved once again that more people talk about writing than actually do it.Mark Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410424046477699059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-6852208033672598252007-05-02T13:06:00.000-04:002007-05-02T13:06:00.000-04:00Hi, Julia. I wrote my very first (unpublished) no...Hi, Julia. I wrote my very first (unpublished) novel with the man who is now my ex-husband. <BR/><BR/>Do you want to hear more? <BR/><BR/>I was already a working business writer with dozens of produced stage play credits when we decided it would be "fun" to write a novel together. Although I can't remember the precise occasion of that decision, I suspect we may have been drinking. <BR/><BR/>In the end, completely renovating three homes was much less stressful than sharing the authorship of one novel. But, hey, I learned a few things from that collaboration, and he probably did, too. As far as I know, he has never tried to write anything ever again. And I now work solo. Very productively. <BR/><BR/>Wishing you love and fun with your fiction! <BR/><BR/>Nina Wright<BR/>www.whiskeymattimoe.blogspot.com<BR/>WHISKEY AND TONIC<BR/>Real estate, murder, and one bad dog.Nina Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01951320004034298217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-10807639440773114742007-05-02T12:51:00.000-04:002007-05-02T12:51:00.000-04:00Your are indeed a brave soul! My wife and I fight...Your are indeed a brave soul! My wife and I fight over who vacuums better - you do have to get under the bed as far as the thing will reach I argue.... No way we could do a book together!Mark Combeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01270361794228887282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-88858220317955060332007-05-02T12:08:00.000-04:002007-05-02T12:08:00.000-04:00Great post, Julia. As someone who does write with ...Great post, Julia. As someone who does write with a partner, I predict that someday you'll look back and realize that wallpaper thing was a piece of cake. :-)Joe Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00028401465567502250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3529128955266044151.post-11240441692661534622007-05-02T11:59:00.000-04:002007-05-02T11:59:00.000-04:00Hysterical posting, Julia! I can't wait for futur...Hysterical posting, Julia! I can't wait for future postings on your progress with the joint book.Sue Ann Jaffarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09984054116933714621noreply@blogger.com