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When collaborative memoir projects fracture over ownership

My writing partner and I have been collaborating on a memoir about our shared trauma for three years, but now she wants to publish it under her name only because she's worried that having my perspective included will make it less commercially viable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people who survived something together now face whether their shared story belongs equally to both or primarily to one.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The letters and journals you leave?”

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