Marriage of Minds: Collaborative Writing

Book excerpt: Artistic collaboration is the most dangerous game around, except maybe for love. The McGoldricks have mastered both. I thought from the first time that I met them that they had something special going on. Now I understand the basis of their magical marriage. It’s called collaboration. – Evan Maxwell, NY Times bestselling novelist, collaborator, and writing columnist Part how-to book, part relationship book, Marriage of Minds offers strategies and techniques for creating successful collaborations and successful fiction. Drawing on their own personal and professional relationship, and on the relationships of other well-known collaborative teams, the McGoldricks walk you through the essentials of successful collaboration: – finding the “write” partner – developing skills in communication and the art of compromise – establishing guidelines – providing constructive feedback – working through “for better or worse” All you and your partner need are the ideas and the talent. Marriage of Minds will supply you with the rest. Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick are award-winning, USA Today bestselling authors of over four dozen novels and two works of nonfiction. They write under the pseudonyms May McGoldrick, Jan Coffey, and Nik James. They make their home in California. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you were inspired by On Writing by Stephen King or The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron or by Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody, and you want to write a novel, check out this helpful book. Keywords – how to write fiction, how to write with a partner, how to write a book an sell lots of copies, how to write young adult fiction, how to write romantic comedy, how to write romance novels, how to write characters, how to write a book, write collaborate, writing with a partner, writing fiction, writing fiction plots, writing bestsellers, writing fiction with a partner, writing romance with a partner.