This Is The May 2016 Open Thread For Merlinscribe

[merlinscribe]

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[(Anonymous)]

How do you write in a co-authorship? Do you ever have conflicting ideas with Mercedes Lackey about how you want the story to go? How often do you both have a different vision for the books you write together?

[merlinscribe]

In these particular collaborations, we work together to produce the short outline, the long outline, and the scene-by-scene breakdown. By that point, most of the plot and characterization beats have been worked out, and we're both on the same page as regards where the story needs to go. If there's something in particular that she wants to happen, she tells me, and if there's something in particular I want to happen, I tell her. In most cases, those things don't conflict with each other, so they both go in.