Perhaps since this month, we gladly feature the New York Times bestseller (right after its release and remained there for three weeks) collaborative novel that was written collaborately by two of today's YA fiction favorite award-winning master storytellers, John Green and David Levithan.
Published in April 2010, its quirky yet down-to-earth narrative is divided evenly in half between two boys named Will Grayson with Green having written all of the chapters for the first and Levithan having written the chapters for the other thus presenting the story in an alternating chapter fashion, Green writing all the odd-numbered chapters (signified by the capitalized Will Grayson) while Levithan wrote all the even-numbered ones (signified by the always lower case will grayson).
Not only did the authors did the even dividing when designing the storyline, the same theme also held true for the main characters' names with Levithan choosing the given name and Green the surname. However, the only plot they decided on together was the fact that the two characters would meet at some point in the novel and that their meeting would have a tremendous effect on their lives after which they separately started the first three chapters for their half and then shared them with each other.
After sharing, they "knew immediately it was going to work" as stated by Levithan.
From that beginning, the book has turned into a full-on high-energy intellectual tale of not only teen love but also intrigue, anger, pain, and friendship threaded with generous measures of comedy that brilliantly melds the ridiculous with the realistic making sure to keep readers turning pages. It might've been what you have expected from the two authors in the first place but its uniqueness continues to win both legions of faithful fans everywhere in the world.
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