Hello and welcome to another episode of working overtime our bi-weekly advice focused

episode I'm your host Ronald Young Jr. and I am your other

host Isaac Butler. So Ronald always good to see you what are we talking about

today. All right Isaac this week we have a listener email from Sharon,

who is a writer, and Sharon says,

I suppose this is mostly for non-fiction writers,

but could also be for other kinds of art and maybe maybe fiction writers

for sure it would be good for screenwriters and maybe you've already addressed

this and I'm just forgetting but I'm curious about collaboration.

How does one choose a collaborator?

If one does in fact get to choose, what pitfall should one be aware of before, during, or after?

And what are some best practices for collaborating with someone else?

I love this question because I love collaboration.

I think it's important for making good creative work

much of my collaboration has been in audio production specifically but Isaac how do you feel about collaboration and creative work generally?

Well, you know, I cut my teeth in theater,

so like for most of my life, collaboration

has been like the thing that was front of mind

all the time in my creative projects.

You know, I started as a professional actor

when I was quite young, 12, you know.

And so that whole thing were like,

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