{"id":10771,"date":"2014-04-26T17:21:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/04\/26\/who-wrote-what-bit-ah-another-tricky-one-as\/"},"modified":"2014-04-26T17:21:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T17:21:41","slug":"who-wrote-what-bit-ah-another-tricky-one-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2014\/04\/26\/who-wrote-what-bit-ah-another-tricky-one-as\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHO WROTE WHAT BIT?
\nAh. Another tricky one. As the official Keeper of the One True Copy, Terry physically wrote more of Draft 1 than Neil. But if 2,000 words are written down after a lot of excited shouting, it\u2019s a moot point whose words they are. And, in any case, as a matter of honor both of them rewrote and footnoted the other guy\u2019s stuff, and both can write passably in the other guy\u2019s style. The Agnes Nutter scenes and the kids mostly originated with Terry, the Four Horsemen and anything with maggots started with Neil. Neil had the most influence on the opening, Terry on the ending. Apart from that, they just shouted excitedly a lot.<\/p>\n

The point they both realised the text had wandered into its own world was in the basement of the old Gollancz books, where they\u2019d got together to proofread the final copy, and Neil congratulated Terry on a line that Terry knew he hadn\u2019t written, and Neil was certain that he hadn\u2019t written either. They both privately suspect that at some point the book had started to generate text on its own, but neither of them will actually admit this publicly for fear of being thought odd.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This happens a surprising amount in any good collaboration. \u201cThat\u2019s a great line!\u201d \u201cYou wrote it.\u201d \u201cNo, I\u2019m pretty sure you did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch<\/em> (2006 edition) – appendix by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (via <\/span>hapfairy<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah daggerpen<\/a> and I have this epic fic we wrote that we both insist the other wrote most of<\/span><\/p>\n

(via daggerpen<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This happens when reading through old Monsters Anonymous scripts with Vince.<\/p>\n

(via mintypineapple<\/a>)<\/p>\n

PRETTY MUCH #MEETINGLIFE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO WROTE WHAT BIT? Ah. Another tricky one. As the official Keeper of the One True Copy, Terry physically wrote more of Draft 1 than Neil. But if 2,000 words are written down after a lot of excited shouting, it\u2019s a moot point whose words they are. And, in any case, as a matter of … <\/p>\n

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