Five Things Make a Post

[rolanni]

1. Christine Valada and Len Wein have lost most of their house, many of their belongings and the family dog to a house fire. Chris, Len and Chris' son, Michael, are fine, for values of "fine" that include both "alive" and "bereaved." I'm torn between being so very happy that Chris and Len and Michael got out safely, and being so dreadfully sorry for their considerable losses.


2. It amuses me hugely when readers try to guess which part of any particular novel Steve wrote and which part I wrote. It doesn't work that way, folks.

3. Hexapuma has a sloppy, drippy cold. He's obviously Completely Miserable, and I can't pick up the Magic Pink Stuff at the vet's until tomorrow. Worried cat-mom, here.

4. Here in Central Maine, we're having a thunderstorm. Up-country, it's snowing.

5. Progress on Mouse and Dragon

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Comments

[keristor.livejournal.com]

I rarely spot (and even more rarely look for) which author wrote what in a collaboration. Occasionally authors do comment about it in an afterword ("He wrote the odd chapters and I wrote the even ones, then we swapped over and each rewrote each others' chapters") but even on reading that and going back I still don't usually spot them.

And really I don't care, except that I am interested in the process of writing in general and the different ways authors do it (which is why I really enjoy the comments you and other authors make about how you do writing, revising, etc.), the same with composers and other creative people. If the story is well-written then I get caught up in it and don't even notice chapter boundaries most of the time ("I'll just read to the end of the chapter before going to bed" ... a couple of hours later ... "Why am I at the end of the book already?").