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THE CO-WRITING EXPERIENCE

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TERRA ZIPORYN

Author of The Bliss of Solitude, Time’s Fool, Do Not Go Gentle, and the new novel Permanent Makeup as well as many nonfiction works including The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health, Alternative Medicine for Dummies, and Nameless Diseases.

4 JULY 2020 THE CO-WRITING EXPERIENCE

An Interview with Co-Writers Michael J. Tucker and Tom Wood

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I’ve co-authored non-fiction for most of my career, but never considered co-writing novels or short stories. Having complete control over the work has actually been one of fiction-writing’s chief draws for me–distinguishing it from the science writing, playwriting, and other collaborative writing I do.

But recently authors Michael J. Tucker and Tom Wood had made me re-think co-writing. They have just published a co-written, A Night on the Town. a short story about two strangers whose paths cross on a fateful rideshare encounter. 

Both were gracious enough in this interview to enlighten me about the co-writing experience.

TZ: A Night on the Town is written using alternating first-person voices—which strikes me as particularly well suited to co-writing because it gives each author the ability to develop a distinct character or characters (kind of like improvisational theatre).

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A SECOND LOOK AT FLANNER O’CONNOR’S WISE BLOOD

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MICHAEL J. TUCKER

Author of  Aquarius Falling and Capricorn’s Collapse

13 MAY 2015 A SECOND LOOK AT FLANNER O’CONNOR’S WISE BLOOD

5/13/2015 A Second Look at Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood

I saw the movie and read the book and thought wow, whaWise Bloodt a crazy story filled with weird characters doing strange things. Recently I’ve been reading about symbolism in literature. A discussion of symbolism in any book can sometimes be off-putting for some readers, especially if they missed the meaning. They rebut that sometimes a story is just a story. And that’s true too. But I’m talking about Flannery O’Connor now, a deeply religious person, a practicing Catholic living in the South.

So, what’s it all about?

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