Creating Kezra - Days 4-5

Co-writing a sci-fi novel to prove a point - we have encountered our first misunderstanding.

Having left the pub with a plot and a plan for how to start writing we felt confident - so far, so good. We were both clear on who would write which section. It turns our however that, unfortunately, we left with completely different ideas on HOW we were going to write our respective parts.

So, some time later, when asked whether I was carrying Kezra round with me I said no. I was writing my section on a laptop which I shared with my other half and so I couldn’t take it everywhere with me…obviously.

This was met with a stunned pause and then my writing buddy pulled out a notebook, covered in handwritten text. We looked at each for some moments. I had been writing everything straight into electronic form, my co-writer was doing it all by hand.

We looked back to the night in the pub. We had taken a notebook (the paper kind). I admit this was my idea. That part all went fine and we scrawled our plot down by hand. I hadn’t meant for us to write the whole thing out by hand, the plan is to publish this electronically after all, no paper copies.

My co-writer thought I had insisted we write it all by hand, and begrudgingly had agreed so as not to muddy the waters at this very early stage… but, alas, will now have to type up all notes to date… Sorry mate.