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I am collaborating with two life/executive coaches on a book for entrepreneurs and world leaders. It will be quite exciting. My role is to weave what they create into coherent prose;then help create a query and proposal for publishers.
Now as the process began to emerge, I did something that I feel is necessary early on in a partnership project- we talked money and percentage. This is so important to get out of the way and come to an agreement on because it can come back later and bite you in the tail if you don’t.
While it would not be ethical to go into details, we established what each person’s role was in the project and came up with a fair cut and even front page alignment of names.
Now that is out of the way- it is time to do the real work. The first thing I had everyone do is write a synopsis of what they felt the book was about. We did this on Google docs, which great because we can all see and alter the doc in real time.
We talked on Skype since we are all in different time zones while writing notes on the Google document. The synopsis is good and will evolve as we go.
The next step is to create a boiled down cohesive synopsis and a skeletal outline of the book. Their assignments are to pick one chapter and work on it. We will come together in a week and talk about what we have come up with.
Ok my dream is to go to the summer writer’s workshop at the University of Iowa. There are two tracks that go on there- one is by invitation. It is a graduate program for no credit, but as my wife Kate says it is harder to get into than Harvard Medical School. (she is an alumnus- Arts, Lit and Science).