>>>>Thank you for the feedback.
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>>>>You're right, the writing field is a rough one to break into. Even more so these days with the emphasis on blockbusters and name brand authors. But hey, somebody's got to do it, right?
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>>>>I am not interested in a collaborative effort. I think a book needs a voice and by definition you're not going to have that, you're going to have many voices. I don't think it's like music, for instance, where different people play different instruments or sing and somehow make it harmonize.
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>>>In Russia there were several great books written by two authors or brothers.
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>>>Ilf & Petrov, brothers Wainers, brothers Arkadi Strugatsky,Boris Strugatsky come to mind.
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>>>Brothers Grimm as well in Germany...
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>>The Brothers Grimm, OK, you got me there. But IMO fiction is a fundamentally solitary act. Do we remember Leo Tolstoy and his brothers? Fyodor and Vladimir Dostoyevsky? Of course not. We remember, and continue to read, the words of individuals.
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>I guess I need to come with more examples of brothers/father/sons, etc. Right now I just returned from the meeting devoted to my application and have a long list of users' requests to think of.
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>Anyway, at the moment I can only recall Duma father and Duma son and Mendelson grandfather and grandson.
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>Ilf & Petrov mentioned brothers Gonkur (?), but I have to admit that I never read them.

I tried once. It was difficult.