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Working together must be fun! I've never done a collaborative project, so I'm curious to know how that works. Do you write separate scenes or chapters, and then edit each other's work? Your book sounds really fun, by the way, and I'm going to be ordering it soon. I enjoyed the sample I read on Kindle.
M.P. Peacock Hi Nupur - yes, collaborative writing is really fun. My brother and I have been working together for 18 months and not fallen out yet! We started by brainstorming the story outline extensively and jointly planning about 40 chapters with a brief paragraph about what took place in each chapter. Then we wrote separate chapters, mostly alternating, until we finished the first draft. Next we swapped and edited each other's chapters. Finally we got some external advice from friends - especially Paul's Russian friends and jointly worked on a third draft. The great thing about working as a team is that you don't find excuses to put off writing: it becomes an obligation to someone else in a positive way - if I don't do my share of writing, then I'm preventing my brother from completing a book.
We hope you enjoy reading Murder on the Strike of Five - we've been really pleased with the feedback from Goodreads and Amazon readers so far.
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I inspire to become a writer. I've been pretty frustrated with my writing, comparing myself to other writers and looking at the way they write with such fascinating characters, great descriptive language, and realistic dialogue. I've been reading Murder On the Strike Of Five and I love the descriptive language you provide and the way you describe the characters. I wish I could do that. How can I be a better writer?
M.P. Peacock We love creating characters and because two of us write together we spend a lot of time talking about them as though they were real people. We also picked some actors who we thought would suit the roles so that we could be sure we were imagining them in the same way as each other. Find pictures of people who might look like some of your characters and write notes on what their personalities are like. Put them together in a scene and invent a conversation between them which moves the story onwards. Read it out loud to find out whether the dialogue sounds natural and realistic. Don't give up - practice makes perfect and the more you do the better you'll get.
We are so happy that you are reading Murder on the Strike of Five and enjoying it - Thank you!
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I love your icon who designed it? Sencerely Micielle C.
M.P. Peacock Hi Micielle, we found it on the openclipart.org website - just did a search for pics of brother and sister. It looks as though it comes from an old-fashioned children's book, but it didn't say exactly where it came from.
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