The Amazing Benefits Of "Tag-Team" Co-Writing! (Part 1)

This is the first of an expanding, on-going series, or what we here at www.Biz-E-Life.com , sitting around the cofee table with our feet up and our shoes off, like to call "a conversation.”

From time to time, we’ll throw open the beaded curtains to the Biz-e-Life world to give a bit of a “behind-the-scenes” look into what we do, what we’re thinking, and what we talk about.

Why?

Because sometimes it just helps to see things in a different fashion. We could sit here and write things from a planned perspective, pulled together, parlayed and presented in a pretty piece primarily planned to position these postings in a precise pile of practicality for the perceived people to ponder.

Or we could just wing it.

This first round of conversations begins on the topic of working with another person after being a "Lone Wolf" for so long on one's own.

(Larry) Hey David, I've gotten a lot of emails recently from several long-time clients, associates and readers who are asking me "how and why" someone in my position, with an established career, following, reputation and readership, would now suddenly be willing to agree to share the spotlight with another popular, established writer.

"How do you avoid stepping on each other's toes, making sure that you get the chance to stay on track and "make your intended point," while steering clear of competitive creative confrontations?" they ask.

Dude, I've got to ask you, are you getting any such comments or questions like these, and if so, what the heck are you replying back to these deeply inquisitive minds?

(David) As word of Biz-e-Life was starting to leak out (and by leak, I don't mean nude photos of either of us being quietly released to the media in a passing fashion over a root beer float and a pair of bear claws at the corner donut shop), I began getting the occasional comment about just what in the world I was doing. People would pretty much ask, "David, what in the world are you doing?" "Won't this change all that you have been doing?"

My first thought of a reply is something like "You've seen how often I've altered the website or blogs over the years." Or "You remember the original "In Search Of Ourselves" ebook and how things have changed since then." I've probably changed things up more times than a 5-month old gets changed in a week.

(Larry) Yes, exactly, one of the things I have always been the most impressed with about you David, your ability to constantly keep your senses open to not only what's going on all around you, but what's going on inside of you. That's a very rare and valuable quality.

As one continues to grow and expand, as one takes in, absorbs and rearranges ever new and changing information, it only makes sense that one's point of view and road map will naturally be altered, based on the new bits and pieces of reality taken in by simply living life as an intelligent, sentient being from day to day. Anything other than that would be considered dangerously reckless and somewhat crazy.

If you have last year’s map to get to a location, and sense the map was published, the roads between here and there have been re-worked, some new roads opened, some old roads closed, to insist upon forcing your way through several new barricades merely because that's the path you mapped out last year, is complete lunacy!