A Successful Collaboration

When I started teaching writing in 2016, I had students in my classes and seminars who wanted to write for a living but they couldn’t find an agent to represent them or a publisher to buy their manuscripts. In order to fund their creative process while they searched for someone to be their champion, they wanted to learn how to ghostwrite and collaborate so they could practice their craft and make some money. I understood what they were going through and I decided to share with them some of the erratic ups and downs that are involved in a successful collaboration.