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Visitors from 1/30/05:

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An LJ entry by wine_love_pen inspired me to post something similar. I've talked about my strengths and weaknesses in relation to those of my collaborator, so I thought I'd state them more precisely.

Strengths
1. Dialogue
2. Drafting. I can write off the top of my head or from someone else's scene list/outline.
3. Plotting and Complications
4. Characterization
5. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar
6. Proofreading

Weaknesses
1. Action
2. I can't write from an outline I make, and I really can't outline worth a damn, anyway.
3. Description


Could Go Either Way
1. Revision. I write in layers, so that works well, but I'm not as good when I have to edit a finished full-length draft.

Deb, my collaborator, has these strengths:
1. Outlining
2. Seeing patterns in stories, including what I write and can't see.
3. Revision
4. Action
5. Description
6. Characterization

Her weaknesses:
1. Drafting. Her health has been the main problem, but she often has trouble getting started.
2. Spelling, punctuation, and grammar. She's dyslexic.
3. Proofreading
4. Complex plotting. She can do it, but she does better when she can bounce ideas off someone

See a pattern here? One great thing is how we'll both feel something is wrong, but we don't know what, but I think it's one thing and she thinks it's something else, so we'll fight argue discuss it and we come to a solution which so far has always been something entirely different than either of us originally thought.