  NaNoWriMo Tip #21: How To Find a Writing Partner  Novelist and
screenwriter Derek Haas has been working with his screenwriting
partner Michael Brandt since the duo met as college students.
Since then, they have written scripts that included 3:10 to
Yuma, 2 Fast 2 Furious andWanted.  Haas published The Right Hand
this month, a new thriller about a CIA operative. We caught up
with the novelist to find out more about his writing partnership
and get some advice about finding a writing partner.
Haas offered this advice about finding a writing partner: “I
think you need to find someone who has a similar voice, who
enjoys similar books and movies, who thinks the same types of
things are funny, suspenseful, scary, etc.”  He also explained
how the writing relationship began: “Michael and I met as
students at Baylor University, and then we stayed there for grad
school.  We took a screenwriting class together, had a great
professor named Bob Darden, and that’s why we always have a
Darden character die in all of our