Forum: Writers


Subject: Questions on Collaboration

ChuckEvans opened this issue on Dec 07, 2002 ยท 9 posts


ChuckEvans posted Sat, 07 December 2002 at 9:05 PM

Not sure I have seen this item discussed. Let's say two or three people decided to join together to write a book (ultimately to be submitted). There seems to be a lot of stuff to consider: (a) How does one settle artistic disagreements? Should someone be given "final sayso"? (b) How is it divided up? By chapter? By events? Characters? Or should one be the writer and the other(s) be editors with change suggestions? (c) Legal issues? Contracts? Payment(s)? (assuming book would be published) (d) How hard is it when the people can sit together as opposed to using only the internet? Or telephone? (e) Anyone know of any examples of successful collaborations? These are just a few ideas/concerns that popped into my head. I suspect there are more...LOL. Any thoughts?