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When creative partners have conflicting visions for shared characters

My writing partner and I started this novel because we both loved the premise but we keep pulling the protagonist in opposite directions and now she feels like two different people depending on which chapters we wrote and we can't figure out whose version is true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Two strong creative voices are discovering their instincts about character are fundamentally incompatible, threatening the coherence of their joint creation.

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