He Wrote/She Wrote. Again: The One Sentence Idea

Welcome to He Wrote She Wrote Again.

The original post can be found here: He Wrote/She Wrote Again

Jenny
Fourteen years ago, we did a year-long blog on the craft of writing. People have asked that we repost that blog, but we’ve changed a lot in fourteen years, so we’re doing new posts on some of the old topics to to discuss what we still agree with and what we don’t. We’ll link to the old posts so you can see where we’re coming from.

Bob
All these years later, it’s going to be interesting to go back through He Wrote, She Wrote and see where things have evolved in the writing process.

Jenny
Also, hello to any old CherryBombs who’ve found us again. We’ve missed you.

Bob’s 2007 post on The One Sentence Idea
Jenny’s 2007 post on The One Sentence Idea

Bob
The last several years I’ve really focused on that word: Process.

I’ve studied other writers and artists, and then analyzed my own over the course of thirty years writing and eighty books, give or take.

How do we create? Lots of people think writers just wing it, but underneath it all there is always a process. Jenny and I managed to collaborate on three books despite having radically different processes (mine was the good one). I’m sure we’ll discuss how we managed to do that in…