Live To Write Another Day by Dean Orion

Author:Dean Orion [Orion, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989059305
Publisher: Sky Father Media
Published: 2013-03-06T08:00:00+00:00

What You Need to Give Up

When you enter into this relationship, the first thing you have to be willing to give up is creative ownership of the work. When you work with a writing partner, there is no draft just for you. In fact, there is no you anymore. You are now we. So every idea, every outline, every script, right from the very outset, is only fifty percent yours, creatively speaking. (To be clear, I’m not in any way referring to ownership in the financial sense here. Obviously that’s an entirely different conversation.)

The second thing you have to be willing to give up is creative autonomy. Since fifty percent of the work belongs to you and the other fifty percent belongs to your partner, you are only one of two votes that determine every creative decision that must be made on its behalf. So everything must be discussed at some point and negotiated if necessary, which can sometimes be a sticky business.

Most significantly, you also have to be willing to give up your own voice, as does your partner, for the sake of this third, entirely unique creature that is the product of your collaboration. This may seem like a scary proposition, effectively losing your identity as an individual writer (and make no mistake, that’s exactly what it is), but in my experience, this melding of voices is actually one of the coolest aspects of writing with partners—the fact that you’re creating something that would never be the same if it were written by any two other people.

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