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When creative partners lose their individual voices in collaboration

My writing partner and I started this novel because we both love the same weird corner of science fiction, but now every time one of us writes a chapter, the other person edits it until it sounds like neither of us. We're both trying to save the book but we might be killing it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two distinct creative voices are dissolving into compromise rather than finding synthesis.

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