New Thoughts and Insights About Collaborating...
Yesterday I had an epiphany about my writing and the entire Para-Earth Series... it's been a collaboration all along. From "The Bridge" to "The Ship" to "The Vampyre Blogs -Coming Home", the entire journey has been one gigantic collaboration with my wife/best friend Helen. And I am planning on putting her name on the first two books. Why didn't I do this sooner? And how did I not realize it was a collaboration all along? Because I thought a collaboration strictly meant two people were doing the actual writing, but that's not the only way a collaboration works. Ideas, suggestions, helping shape characters, plot, settings, events... all of that goes into a collaboration as well. So even though I did all the writing in "The Bridge" and "The Ship", Helen gave me so much guidance like helping shape the characters personalities, questioning their actions, being my sounding-board for ideas I had but didn't...