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When co-authors struggle to merge their distinct writing voices

My co-author and I have very different voices and we thought that was the point and now we're three chapters in and every session ends with both of us feeling like the book is becoming something neither of us wanted. We keep trying to blend our styles but it's like we're writing two different books that happen to share the same document.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The very differences that made collaboration attractive are now creating a work that feels foreign to both creators.

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