Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. William Strunk, Jr., The Elements of Style, 1918 Personally, I prefer collaborative article writing in distinct stages. After agreeing on writing the paper and agreeing on the overall content, someone does the outline, then the different sections are fleshed out and each co-author gets specific sections to write. One person (the first author) is responsible for the whole thing and has to integrate the text and smooth it over. However, you might prefer a synchronous writing mode. One text in a central location that is edited by all authors (roughly) at the same time. You can use GoogleDocs for this kind of writing. However, I recently got an eMail pointing me to Authorea. It seems to be made for collaborative writing. Instead of everyone being able to edit everything, Authorea seems to lock down paragraphs. Makes sense. The developers write: Authorea […] an online platform for writing, discussing, collaborating on, and sharing academic papers. Authorea was created by a group of astro/experimental physicists and is a [...]
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