Potential Pitfalls in Collabo-writing

Collabo-writers take time to gel as a group.
Promotion and tenure committees may have trouble crediting collaboration.
Few conventions exist for showing the equality or inequality of collabo-writers.
“Free riders” may need to be dumped.
Junior colleagues often feel overpowered by senior colleagues.
Collabo-writing conflicts with individualism, low self-esteem, and
competitiveness.
New collabo-writers tend to choose “mirrors”—colleagues who share
their interests and strengths—over complementers.
Conflict is inevitable, and some handle it better than others.
Partnerships fail unless each person does more than his or her share.
Don’t be afraid to revise. An old Hollywood axiom states, “Nothing is
written—everything is rewritten.”