Vintage WD: Primer for Partnership
In this article from 1948, authors Clara Spiegel and Jane Mayer give some helpful hints about what makes a lasting co-authorship.
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By Clara Spiegel and Jane Mayer who collaborate as Clare Jaynes
Two writers close enough to the idea of collaboration to consider it for themselves, usually react explosively. This vehemence results either from reluctance to divide the joys of creation with a lesser human or from the temptation to throw a part of its burden on anyone at all. Actually, in writing jointly, they would be doing neither, for Webster defines collaborate as to labor together.
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