Fun Pilgrim@tasshinfogleman• almost 2 years ago

Replying to @tasshinfogleman

the process @mary_bajorek and I ended up using/discovering to co-author and self-publish a book together:- decide we were going to write a book together and agree on the project intention, scope, roles, constraints- create an initial outline for the book with possible chapters- start filling and expanding the outline with relevant tweets, notes, ideas- announce book and make book publicly available for reading, comments- set loose intentions for who would be primarily responsible for which parts of the book, or which would be co-authored- meet each week for 90 minutes:a) talk about one chapter of the book together for 30 minutes, both sharing our perspective on the topic. b) pick which chapters we were going to write that week, and co-work for 60 minutes working on different parts of the book. (usually one of us would start writing on each of them). c) while writing, listen to music together (usually an EDM set) in sync (made it fun, felt like we were in it together even though writing separate books)- as chapters finish, publish them separately as blog posts if independently useful - trust any weird and funky ideas about what would be a cool addition to add to the book, something that would make it fun and enjoyable for us to write and to read- upon hitting first draft stage, shift into editing. move all superfluous or less polished material to a separate doc ("Cutting Board")- polish, edit, re-organize what remains repeatedly- have a book launch party!