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When creative partners disagree on fundamental story decisions

My co-writer and I have been working on this novel for two years and we've created this intricate world together but now we want to kill off a major character and I think it's necessary for the story and she thinks it's a betrayal of what we promised readers and neither of us wants to be the one who ruins it.

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A collaborative creation has reached a moment where artistic integrity and creative partnership are in tension.

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