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“Each one that needs to be knowledgeable author ought to have to put in writing in a fandom for somewhat bit,” she famous. “I could not do that job with out what I realized there. It taught us easy methods to take criticism and constructive suggestions, and to know what to take and what to go away. And it confirmed me easy methods to write—we nonetheless use a number of these instruments now in how we assemble chapters and tales.”
Over the course of their time as writing companions, Christina and Lauren have written over 30 books, together with bestsellers like Love and Different Phrases, The Unhoneymooners and most just lately The Paradise Drawback.
And with every new challenge has introduced an evolution of their collaboration course of.
“At the start we needed every thing to be like a brilliant even 50/50 cut up—each single job she did half, I did half,” Lauren admitted. “It simply wasn’t life like. It did not actually work out that method. And I believe we have realized over time that now we have to essentially lean into our strengths.”
As she put it, “As soon as we kind of found out that she’s a superb storyteller, and I love to do the noodly writing, it actually felt prefer it got here collectively.”
That stated, there are some traditions that haven’t wavered. As an example, “We all the time define collectively in particular person,” Lauren famous, “as a result of there’s similar to somewhat magic that occurs once we’re within the room collectively.”
From there, they begin constructing their story, buying and selling drafts till they’ve their completed copy, a timeline that for them is ideally roughly 4 months.