Comments on: Writing With a Partner https://www.thestorydepartment.com/writing-partner/ Story. Screenplay. Sale. Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:47:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steven Fernandez https://www.thestorydepartment.com/writing-partner/#comment-38854 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 06:47:01 +0000 https://thestorydepartment.com/?p=31291#comment-38854 Steve Kaire makes sensible points here. Though I think, in 90% of cases, a 50/50 split in creative input and credit is a big disaster risk. Better to have a ‘dominant’ writer and an essentially ‘assistant’ one to make sure that the overall vision and coherence of the story remains sound. I don’t say that it is absolutely impossible for a 50/50 partnership to work. But that would require a super-exceptionally well-matched pair (or trio or quartet) of writers to work together … Not impossible, but very unlikely.

I think a less risky and more effective approach would be to have trusted friends or colleagues serving as advisers and sounding boards, rather than as co-writers. This way the end story is more likely to be a coherent, compelling, and unified piece that is not compromised nor fractured by differing agendas or angles of interpretation.

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