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What co-authors discuss when writing...
I guess most readers expect book co-authors to be constantly in communication when writing books, discussing all the finer technical points of the subject in hand, constantly refining the content.
Well...
... we are for the most part, but there's always the chance that you end up working with a co-author who knows his/her stuff, but doesn't really connect and have fun at the same time.
I hate it when that happens (and it happens a lot), because the overall personality of the book suffers. Books that are easy and fun to get through for the reader were usually easy and fun to write.
Fortunately, my current co-author, Adam Phillips shares the same off beat and unusually stupid sense of humour as me. Every hour of technical discussion we engage in is surrounded by an hour of irrelevent chat on either side, as we bounce off-beat webdesign ideas off each other, talk about clients (nuff said), other designers, or just plain crap.
Here's an example of the latter - Adam had a contract to create a number of concept drawings of lesser known Marvel superheros (as in 'we need to create some mock-ups because we're going to do loads of cartoon features because Hollywood and everyone else is into superheroes right now').
Um. Except that he started a discussion about it with me in the middle of discussing the book, and that sense of stupidity got in the way, yet again... here's Adams revised concept post chat (scroll down).
Roll on Spiderman III...ahem.
Posted by motiongraphics on September 13, 2005 07:17 PM