Thats very interesting, but I meant, how do two people write a book together???
Ah! I see. A lot of people assume that Preston and Child divvy up chapters: ‘You take chapter seventeen, and I’ll take chapter eighteen.’ But at least in this partnership, that would be a recipe for disaster. Instead, what usually happens is that a great deal of discussion about the overall plot and structure of a new project is done first. Then, Child sends a brief outline of a set of chapters to Preston. Preston writes the first draft of those chapters, which Child then rewrites. And then, of course, there are more rewrites that follow on both sides. That’s what gives the novels a relatively seamless surface: all four hands have found their way into practically every sentence, at one time or another.
