“I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.” WayWritingTwoPlayTogetherNaturalPersonalityComplexityTwo Friends Author:Alison McGhee
“I don't think we [with Kate DiCamillo] intended to write a book about friendship, I think we intended to write a book about two friends.” ThinkingWritingTwoBookKateAbout FriendshipTwo Friends Author:Alison McGhee
“We'd decided to write a book about two friends. I gave her some coffee and then we sat there not knowing what to do. How do you start writing a book together? So Kate [DiCamillo] got up after about 10 minutes into this endeavor, and said, 'Well, that was fun,' and started to head out the door. I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, no no no,' because I'm a bit more patient.” WritingWellsSaidTwoBookTogetherFunBitsWaitingKnowingDoorsMinutesDecidedPatientCoffeeSatEndeavorNot KnowingWriting A BookKateTwo FriendsKnowing What To Do Author:Alison McGhee
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was a sock and it went from there. Once we got going, once we got on a roll, it became very easy to work together and to figure out how to do it. We would meet for two-hour segments, usually from 10-12, two or three times a week. We met all one summer, and I think into the fall.” ThinkingGivingTwoTogetherFallThreeEasyHoursWeekFiguresObjectsMetsSummerDecidedWorking TogetherThree TimesSockKate Author:Alison McGhee
“So we [with Kate DiCamillo] would act them out, we would toss ideas back and forth, we would laugh, we would argue. Sometimes it went really well, sometimes it was such a pain in the ass. Our other rule was that we wouldn't work on it at all when we weren't in the other's presence. It was really hard not to do that. We'd start going on email back and forth, 'What do you think about this, what do you think about that?' But, no, no, no, it had to be live. So we forced ourselves not to look at it except during those two-hour stretches when we were actually with each other.” ThinkingWellsLooksTwoIdeasSometimesHardPainHoursLaughingArguingAssEmailBack And ForthKateToss Author:Alison McGhee
