Creativity is Easier When You Have a Partner

This is a week of celebrations here at Blogger Dad. On Tuesday, it was the site’s one year birthday. Today marks an even more significant event.

It was one year ago that I met my writing and business partner, Writer Dad, Sean Platt.

The only reason we met is because he “stole” my domain name of Writer Dad. For those that haven’t already read this story, it was last summer when I found myself laid off from my job as a newspaper reporter. I was pretty much at my lowest point in life, as I’d just lost a job I loved – make that the only job I’ve ever had that I loved. I was looking for something new and decided to start a blog to keep my writing fresh and perhaps land a writing gig somewhere.

And I had the perfect name in mind, WriterDad.com.

The name was available, too. Which for those of you who have searched for domain names only to find all the best ones already taken, it’s a pretty big deal when such an awesome find is made.

The only problem was that was also in love with another domain which I opted to get instead. Almost immediately, I changed my mind and wanted to get WriterDad. However, when I went back to get it – it was gone!

Immediately, I typed in the url and saw that some joker named Sean Platt was now using the domain. And I wanted to hate him for “stealing” my name from me.

However, after reading his stuff, I was blown away. Here was a guy writing from the heart and writing some very powerful, thought provoking stuff.

On a whim, I decided to email him and tell him the story of the domain name story and ask him if he’d like to be interviewed for my new site, BloggerDad. I fully expected him to see my email as some sort of  “new guy” kissing up to a more established blogger hoping to share in the glory, which is not my style at all. However, you can never really be sure of somebody’s intentions on the Internet.

His response was nothing short of the nice guy who I’d gotten to know through his writing, with none of the ego or hubris that often comes with people who find quick success.

From there, we hit it off immediately. We’re a lot alike and have similar stories of growing up, though doing so on different coasts. And creatively, we gel perfectly. Our strengths and weaknesses compliment one another and we’ve found that working together on our various sites and our book, Available Darkness to be an amazing creative process.

But more than a creative partner, I’ve found a friend who is honest, hardworking and funny as hell. We talk nearly every day and though we’ve never met, Sean has become one of my closest friends. We are creating worlds together. And as an artist, that is the ultimate dream.

Today marks a slight shift in one of those worlds as we’ve given our first online home together, Collective Inkwell a bit of a makeover. If you haven’t already checked it out, I invite you to do so now. We’ve also rebooted our ghostwriting site, Ghostwriter Dad. If Collective Inkwell is our studio/coffee bar, where we talk about creativity, then Ghostwriter Dad is our office where we talk shop.

See you tomorrow with more Blogger Dad Looking Back stuff that I should’ve posted yesterday.

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