Co-Writing

You want to know what co-writing is like? This is what it's like.

OKAY LETS DO SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE NOW DO IT COME ON IM GOING TO KEEP TYPING UNTIL YOU INTERRUPT ME AND

GLINDA NOW D< DO SOMETHING START A SCENE COME OOOOOON KEEP BEING PRODUCTIVE ALKHGLAKSHG LI’M GOING TO HIT CAPSLOCK CAUSE MY FINGERS IS TIRED OF HOLDING SHIFT OKAY HERE WOW I DID IT CAPS LOCK I LIKE YOU. =D YOU’RE MY NEW FRIEND. ACTUALLY I LIKE SHIFT BETTER STILL, BUT MY FINGERS WAS GETTING REALLY TIRED AND FOR LONG-TERM PROJECTS LIKE THIS I NEED SOME CAPS LOCK. BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I IN ANY WAY DISOWN THE SHIFT KEY, AS THAT SHALL FOREVER REMAIN IN MY GOOD GRACES, MOSTLY AS MY FAVOuRITE MODE OF CAPITALIZING THINGS WOW I MISSPELLED WORDS GLINDA STOP MAKING MY WORDS CANADIAN D< I DO NOT APPRECIATE IT.

ACTUALLY I TYPE THINGS WITH THE BRITISH SPELLINGS A LOT. AND DON’T NOTICE AND PEOPLE ARE LIKE ._. DUDE YOU SPELLED THAT WRONG -

GLIND. I THINK YOU’RE JUST AMUSED BY MY RAMBLINGS. STOP THAT.

GO BE PRODUCTIVE.

START A SCENE.

WRITE A BOOK.

RECORD A VLOG.

SOMETHING.

PRODUCTIVITY = NOT THIS.

GOT IT?

*WAITS FOR RESPONSE*

.____________________________________________. notthatkindofscene.

Glind sat before the screen, giggling madly. This was way too fun.

Sarah sighs and turns off capslock. That was NOT the response she was looking for.

“You should really be more specific about these things. Lots of miscommunication can happen,” Glind politely informed the marshmallow. “Such as talking to marshmallows and dying of laughter. Shrooms, man.”

Mal gigglesnorts. “Okay, but really. If you don’t want to write your scene, we’re doing some Mick. Nic. Neghan … M...ick. Mick. Yeah.”

“Mick! Like Mickey Mouse! Ohmygoodness, we can name it mouse! But they die. From poison. Or maybe dogs eat them. Maybe the dog is like...like..a euphemism for JAMES.” Glind stared wide-eyed at the marshmallow. “That is so deep.”

“You are a complete dork.” Sarah informs Lauren politely. “Also, I was thinking ‘mick’ like “You’re taking the mick” you ever heard that phrase?”

Laur completely disregarded the point of that sentence and burst out laughing. “You started to spell ‘phrase’ with an f! Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.”

Sarah sighs and tries to not throw things at the Glind. “YesIdidIamsickokaydontmakefunofme.” 

“But.”

“Hey this is not being productive. At all. SHHHH. Go write a scene. Put this in the NOT T&D.”

“You mean the file that is completely dedicated to when we get so derailed off of our novel that we just spaz out like this? The file that will most certainly be longer than our actual novel? Okay.”

“...Yeah, that. And you have thirty seconds. No getting distracted. GO.”\

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Now do you see why nothing ever gets done? This is so completely why.