In 2010, while discussing Crime and Punishment, five members of the group decided spontaneously to write a ‘bestseller’ in order to fund a trip to Russia.
While other forms of creative writing – notably screenwriting for television and movies – thrived on collaboration, multi-author novels were rare.
The group collaboratively decides what will happen in each scene: the action, setting the point of view, impacts on the emotion and knowledge of the participating character and the tone.
At this Revision Meeting, each writer reads her own scene out loud and other participants have an opportunity to suggest improvements, which are integrated or not by agreement.
Following the publication of The Shifting Light in 2017, the Alices appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival[13] and ran a workshop on how to write collaborative fiction.