The Word Process is a partnership of two published novelists and veteran journalists. We – Linda Cashdan and Molly McKitterick – met working together as economics reporters. We discovered we were each, independently, beginning to write fiction and attended a local “fiction writers’ workshop” together. What we found were people who wanted to talk about writing rather than write.
The two of us began exchanging chapters and critiquing each other’s work. (Our first lesson was that this could be a painful process: Many times we thanked each other profusely for “the help” and then cried all the way home in the car.)
In addition to learning how to write fiction, we each got very good at manuscript editing (figuring out what worked and what did not work) and book doctoring (fixing the manuscript to make it better).
That was more than two decades ago. We still operate that way. While we work one on one with clients, we consult each other regularly. Thus, writers who come to us often get the opinions of two experienced ghostwriters or editors for the price of one.