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When creative partners discover fundamental artistic differences mid-project

My writing partner and I started this novel because we both love unreliable narrators, but now we're realizing we have completely different ideas about how much the reader should be able to trust anything at all. Every chapter feels like we're writing two different books that happen to share the same characters.

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Two creators are discovering that shared enthusiasm masked deeper philosophical divides about the work itself.

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