I love hearing how other people make the coauthor relationship work! When MarcyKate Connolly and I cowrote The Thirteenth Circle, we used a shared Scrivener doc in a shared Dropbox folder, and we alternated writing times: I had access to the document before noon, and she had it after lunch. So we were always writing back and forth, instead of in tandem. I'd love to try your method sometime in the future!
Ooh, that's a pretty nifty workaround for Scrivener until they give us cloud collaboration capabilities. (I really hope they roll it out soon. Gosh, would I love to just collab in real time in one shared Scrivener doc!)
Do you think Jodi's experience being a co-author was helpful? I mean, I'm sure it was, so maybe the question is more like, how much do you think her experience contributed to the success of the project? Could two newbies have figured it out? (assuming they'd read your posts, of course ;) )
I know without a doubt that her previous experience helped. And since I had none, I was very willing to defer to her. If she said "this worked best before" or "X caused problems" I trusted her 100%. I'm sure we could have figured it out if she didn't have previous experience—after all, Jodi figured it out with her Janies co-authors, and they were all new to it at the time—but I think her existing knowledge definitely streamlined that process for us.
I love hearing how other people make the coauthor relationship work! When MarcyKate Connolly and I cowrote The Thirteenth Circle, we used a shared Scrivener doc in a shared Dropbox folder, and we alternated writing times: I had access to the document before noon, and she had it after lunch. So we were always writing back and forth, instead of in tandem. I'd love to try your method sometime in the future!
Ooh, that's a pretty nifty workaround for Scrivener until they give us cloud collaboration capabilities. (I really hope they roll it out soon. Gosh, would I love to just collab in real time in one shared Scrivener doc!)
So cool to hear all this info on co-writing! I'm curious what your answers were to the questions though!
Perhaps I will have to do a part 2!
Do you think Jodi's experience being a co-author was helpful? I mean, I'm sure it was, so maybe the question is more like, how much do you think her experience contributed to the success of the project? Could two newbies have figured it out? (assuming they'd read your posts, of course ;) )
I know without a doubt that her previous experience helped. And since I had none, I was very willing to defer to her. If she said "this worked best before" or "X caused problems" I trusted her 100%. I'm sure we could have figured it out if she didn't have previous experience—after all, Jodi figured it out with her Janies co-authors, and they were all new to it at the time—but I think her existing knowledge definitely streamlined that process for us.