And there’s also the joy of getting to procrastinate from your own work in progress. None of us have any idea how these Team W books go so quickly-but they do! As we discussed above, we write round robin, so when the chapters land in your inbox, you definitely don’t want to disappoint the others by dawdling. How long did it take to write your part of All The Ways We Said Goodbye? Does a book like this take a longer or shorter time period to complete than a single-author novel? Lauren Willig: Speaking of seamless…it’s a point of pride to us that no editor we’ve had has yet managed to send the right edits to the right authors! We didn’t originally intend to hide who wrote which bit, but we love that our voices meld so well that people can’t tell-even our own editor! It all involves a matter of trusting each other as writers, that this is “our” book, and that’s why everything appears so seamless. During the course of writing our individual chapters, if we find something that isn’t working, we begin a text chain with the proposed change and we have always found a way to accommodate the change in subsequent chapters. Karen White: We have found that our plotting episodes are quite magical with us finishing each other’s sentences and answering the author’s proverbial “but what if” questions that are generally answered by crickets when writing solo.
We outlined every single chapter, sometimes in detail, until we had something that felt right to us all. Once there, we park ourselves on the most comfortable couch we can find, order insane quantities of caffeine, and spend the next three days thrashing out the entire plot of the book…īeatriz Williams: Which is not at all how we write our individual books! All three of us tend to plot pretty loosely and let the characters and story develop organically as we go along, but we knew that if all three of us were going to own the novel, we’d have to outline in deep detail before we started writing, so that each piece would fit seamlessly with the next regardless of who had tapped out the sentences. With every book, we start by converging on a central location, preferably someplace warm. Back rubs? Historical detail? Intricate knowledge of Starbucks varietals? In reality, we blundered onto a process that works brilliantly for us, and also involves lots of prosecco. Our absolute favorite is that Beatriz writes the books and Karen and I just provide “expertise.” I’m not entirely sure what kind of expertise. Lauren Willig: Over the years, some conspiracy theories have been generated over how we work together.
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