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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44327
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/44327
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

 **Is poetry always a solo endeavor?**

TV scriptwriting is classically done in a Writer's Room, where the show-runner outlines the main plot/character beats for a season, they and senior writers break out those elements into individual shows, then one or two writers create the draft, then collaboratively more jokes are added or the pacing is adjusted, etc.

Movie scriptwriting (from what I understand) is a little more solitary, but often it's layers of re-writes upon rewrites, with different writers/teams brought in every few drafts (or with new producers) to tear it down and start over.)

Book and short stories are often done alone, but there's also a fair tradition of collaboration: see _Good Omens_ by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman for a popular example.

**What about poetry?** Is there a way that it can be done, and done well, collaboratively? "_I've got imagery, you've got vocabulary?_"

Is it the same as technical-writing's editing: (My editor -- "_ok, you've got all the things the user needs to do, but this could really be 5 separate sentences in 2 steps._")  
Cowriter to potential Poet: _I like your rant on facebook this morning -- let's play around with the words to see if we can distill that anger?_

Just a thought. Any examples of poetic collaboration I can look at?

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