Guest Post: Martin Bolton on Co-Writing a Novel
Today I'd like to welcome Martin Bolton, my second guest poster here at Dianna's Writing Den. I hope you'll find this post as interesting as I did. On Co-Writing a Novel When my good friend, David Pilling, and I decided to write a novel together we had no idea where to start. We had both written plenty of stuff individually, but how do you coordinate a dual effort? Before we could think of the actual story, we had to decide how we would both contribute to a book without it being disjointed and difficult to read. After a few decent ales and a good chat, we came up with the idea of a story with two main protagonists who are born on opposite sides of a world, have never met,…