If you are working with someone else to make a book, make sure you are focused on the creation and end product, not competing with your co-creator. Instead they should expand on the characters, plot, or subjects being covered and offer a new unique perspective or a continuation of the story. Each author shouldn’t repeat the same information. Text and image shouldn’t repeat each other, but reinforce and enhance the other. They were focused on creating a single book.Ī solid, creative partnership should function in this way. They looked for ways they could add to each other’s work, instead of distract from it. Gaiman didn’t try to control Riddell’s images by dictating they stick exactly to what he wrote, and Riddell didn’t go off on a tangent or reinvent the story and characters Gaiman had written. Throughout the book, Gaiman is able to focus on the plot while Riddell handles the world building. Gaiman doesn’t need to describe the journey under the mountains because Riddell’s illustrations flesh out the underground world faster than Gaiman could with words. This passage is followed by an image of the dwarfs walking on an underground pathway with a large creature passing by in the background. Even the dwarfs, who were tough, and hardy, and composed of magic as much as of flesh and blood, could not go over the mountain range.
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