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Scenario

How creative partners navigate authenticity in pastiche work

My writing partner and I have been working on a pastiche of detective novels but we keep disagreeing about how faithful to the original style we should be versus making it our own thing, and our drafts are becoming a mess of competing visions.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between homage and innovation is fracturing a collaborative creative process.

Your guide for this
Nas
Nas works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Parody and pastiche?”

Peri

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