KikiKisses
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I wasn’t expecting to tear up over this question!When Athalia was alive, I used to "collaborate" with her constantly. She'd edit my stuff, and I'd edit hers. Sometimes it got to the point where I would do a re-write of some of her stories that were told from a male perspective, and she'd re-write some of my stuff to better reflect a female point of view. But we tried to make the transitions seamless. Oddly, she was better at re-writing my stuff than I was at re-writing hers, which made me suspect that women are better at getting inside men's heads than vice versa.
After she died, I published "College Sex Club" in her name. It was based on some snippets she had around and was planning to weave into a story, but I needed to write some connective tissue to bind the snippets together. The seams probably show.
But I don't think I could ever enter a writing partnership with anybody else. Athalia and I had known each other for about forty years before and, while our relationship was never sexual (bad timing, mostly), our friendship remained deep over the years.
I wrote the essay "The Right Editor" based on my experience with her. It says more than I could say in this post, and I'm re-posting it in her memory.
https://www.literotica.com/s/the-right-editor