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Yay for Nilly baby!

if the tech had bit me, it would have felt more honest.

Congratulations, Nilly family!

OK - I've run into a block on a novel I'm working that I don't think I can overcome on my own. I just can't plot that long. I have the beginning, the end, the world, the main character, some other characters, some really good scenes.

The offer I'd like to make to another writer: you look at what I've got. You come up with a fairly detailed outline (a page or two per chapter). I'll do a first draft. And when it comes to further drafts, we divide the labor the way you choose.

Question: is this a fair offer? Am I asking the other person to do much of the work? Am I monopolizing the fun of writing?

I get to bring the doggy home tomorrow after work. Tonight I need to dog-proof the living room, set up the crate, and figure out how to attach the dog car seat to the seats in my car. Also, take the tags off all the dog toys I bought.

Aw, happy homecoming, Hil.

Typo, I think what you're asking is essentially what a ghostwriter would do, but he or she would be paid. If you and a friend wanted to collaborate on an idea, that's one thing, but asking someone to outline your idea for you, for free, seems a little unlikely.

Well I was thinking partnership, but from what you are saying it is not really partnership, it is ghostwriting. So way too much of ask of in a 50/50 relationship.

Happy Doggie Proofing Hil!

So my nephew is getting a bunch of fillings done tomorrow. They are having to sedate him, but hopefully he'll be a trooper.

It's not really a partnership unless you collaborate on the idea. Although it could be if found someone to agree to it. In my experience, though, most writers either want to be part of the creative process, or they want a work-for-hire gig that pays.

Ah if they had their own input into the idea then it would be a more standard partnership? But I'd still need them to come up with almost all of the plot, probably in outline form, so that is still not a partnership.