Frequently Asked Questions
How do you write together?
Over the years, we've tried to think of ways to describe how we collaborate--a road trip with two drivers, the elves and the shoemaker--and these metaphors do explain WHY we write together: it's nice to keep covering ground while you're asleep (road trip), and it's nice to wake up and see that someone has finished all the shoes while you slept (the elves). But the real question is "how do you write together without fighting?" The technical answer is that one of us writes the beginning and passes it to the other person. We pass it back and forth over a period of months or years, revising and adding material. We talk a lot about the characters and things that we're planning to try. We compromise. We try not to shout or sulk. And we do, most of the time, really love what the other person has written. That's what brought us together in the first place: loving the same books, the same writers, the same kinds of stories.