We made a list of people we thought might make good beta readers. What makes a good beta reader you ask? Well it's a person that you trust not to randomly forward your creation off to thousands of others, who actually reads the entire manuscript from start to finish, and will provide you with HONEST FEEDBACK.

We'd constantly check our word count to see how much further we'd gotten. Were we at our desired word count yet? No? 'Sigh'  Fine, back to rereading the entire story yet again to see what it's missing. After repeating that process many, many times, we finally reached our desired word count and decided we were done. But then that brought up the question, "Ok, so we're done. Now what?" leaving us unsure of the answer.

Perhaps it was the newness and excitement of writing, but there were times my muse would hold me captive. I would tell myself "Ok, I'll only write for an hour. Then I have to get in the shower in order to leave for work on time." , but the muse would just laugh and take hold.

What process are we going to use to co-write this thing? Were we going to just have one MS Doc that we emailed back and forth, adding any new things that our muses fed to us? But what if we both had ideas, but they conflicted on our imaginary timeline? Do we do what our author friend and her co-writing partner do, and write via a chat application?

I thought, "Ok, here we go!" as I mentally cracked my knuckles. Then I sat there and just stared at the blank area of the document, sure I would fill it instantly with exciting prose...only to have nothing come to me. My mind was utterly blank. Two characters just standing there, in the woods. I saw nothing beyond what Kelly had provided.