tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post3229635928862361972..comments2024-03-28T11:25:28.341-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: An Interview with Eric Reed by E. B. DavisJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-52867608254592326572016-01-22T07:55:36.131-05:002016-01-22T07:55:36.131-05:00Congrats, Eric Reed! You are in fine company with ...Congrats, Eric Reed! You are in fine company with those other ink-stained wretches at Casa Maywrite! You all should write a book about collaboration -- I'm just beginning to learn the ropes of writing with another person, and could certainly use the guidance.Tinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05843235860651070479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-14917995033977622892016-01-21T12:24:03.711-05:002016-01-21T12:24:03.711-05:00Thanks, E.B., for this interview and to all those ...<br />Thanks, E.B., for this interview and to all those who were kind enough to leave comments.<br /><br />I'll answer the questions on our collaborative process here, as there is a space limit for replies. <br /><br />We work from an outline so we have some guidance on what will happen in each chapter, though it is not written in stone and tends to diverge ever more as the end of the book approaches. We each take a chapter, perhaps one to which had contributed most of the plot, and write it. Then we pass each chapter over to B, who gives it a polish and adds a bit more. Those chapters turn into the first draft, which is checked for plot developments, clue placement in particular, before another polish. That forms the second draft, submitted for editorial comments which are then incorporated into the third and final version.<br /><br />We have long since agreed there's no room for ego in collaborative writing and so if one of us feels strongly a particular passage should be added or left out, the other agrees. <br /><br />In the writing, we sometimes dodge about and write chapters before their turn in line so some care has to be taken to keep things straight, particularly when the protagonist obtains certain information. But it all works out in the end, although in fact for one novel we wrote the first and last chapters first, leaving only the bit in the middle to be completed. <br /><br />Curiously enough, although we have different writing styles individually, our blended<br />style for writing fiction is distinctively different from both without an attempt to be so!Mary Rhttp://home.earthlink.net/~maywrite/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-43763265877302538832016-01-20T16:06:43.507-05:002016-01-20T16:06:43.507-05:00Great interview, E.B. Thank you for introducing us...Great interview, E.B. Thank you for introducing us to these talented authors. I look forward to reading their work.Paula Gail Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843350597811462936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-25348288655808633962016-01-20T15:50:26.826-05:002016-01-20T15:50:26.826-05:00I find just about everything about World War II in...I find just about everything about World War II interesting. My father fought in it. Your work goes on my to-be-read pile.Warren Bullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789270258599769915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-73983606761701698062016-01-20T13:09:32.702-05:002016-01-20T13:09:32.702-05:00Britain during the War has always held a fascinati...Britain during the War has always held a fascination, far more so than the US. I too am wondering how the collaboration process works. Do you share plotting or write different aspects of the story? Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-2676141534910975892016-01-20T13:06:14.114-05:002016-01-20T13:06:14.114-05:00I'm always fascinated by writers who are two p...I'm always fascinated by writers who are two people. Would love to hear more about the collaboration process. If one of you is stuck, can the other push forward? <br />carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15985823239660829148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-50001555408798376952016-01-20T12:12:11.417-05:002016-01-20T12:12:11.417-05:00What a great addition to WWII fiction! I love to r...What a great addition to WWII fiction! I love to read historical mysteries that are well grounded in research, and this sounds like something I would love, as does your series.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-41659971764374819532016-01-20T10:39:15.074-05:002016-01-20T10:39:15.074-05:00Welcome to WWK, Mary and Eric. As someone born sho...Welcome to WWK, Mary and Eric. As someone born shortly before WWII started, and also an Anglophile who loves books set in the UK, I look forward to reading your book. I've written it down on my to order list.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-71689807662750929322016-01-20T10:27:52.977-05:002016-01-20T10:27:52.977-05:00I love historical fiction, so your series sound fa...I love historical fiction, so your series sound fascinating, Mary and Eric. Thank you for stopping by WWK. Now the real mystery - how to you handle writing together? Division of duties? Chapters?Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-1416679440702475662016-01-20T06:52:50.966-05:002016-01-20T06:52:50.966-05:00Mary and Eric created tension. There was a "w...Mary and Eric created tension. There was a "who's next" feel for the reader. When extreme events happen, rational people wonder if it is insanity or some paranormal evil. At the gym yesterday, the news announced that in a two-year span over 16,000 people had been killed and 38,000 people had been wounded in Iraq. With IEDs blasting whoever is in proximity, it makes us all wonder at the rage and the lack of scruples. But perhaps I've defined war. The book captured the terror of WWII as reflected in the microcosm of the small English village. Man remembers nothing and learns nothing. I hope God's experiment at the next planet is going better than ours.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-76350254622008999882016-01-20T06:12:21.526-05:002016-01-20T06:12:21.526-05:00Congratulations on your start of a new series, and...Congratulations on your start of a new series, and welcome to WWK. I wonder if our fascination with WWII is because those who lived through It are fast leaving us, which means our only way of capturing the time is the stories we now tell.<br /><br />~ JimJim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.com