Two halves make a whole-a writing partnership
01/06/2026
Nothing like a good math metaphor. Aidan is the plotter. I am the plodder. That’s how we started. It is how we continue. When he was 13, I thought it would be a good idea for him to write down the stories that he played with all the time. He didn’t build Lego for the sake of the structures—but to sustain the story in his head. He didn’t just play with his 47 stuffies, he had an entire world that they inhabited, where they moved around the city, using the sewers during the night, in a fantastical criminal underworld. Aidan imagines—and I poke holes in his ideas until he shores them up sufficiently that it all makes sense to me.
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