3 Tips for Writing with a Co-Author Shakil Ahmad provides the top 3 things he learned while co-authoring the book Wild Sun with his brother Ehsan. Author: Mar 2, 2021 Ehsan and I being brothers makes this rendition of co-authoring tips slightly different. Furthermore, we were born to Pakistani immigrants that made their way to where else but Queens, New York. Being first-generation in the United States is a strange statement to put to paper because we do not feel as though the label fits. Yet there are profoundly experience-rattling attributes to it—growing up Muslim being one of them. Suffice it to say that we share a unique outlook on life based on the additional lenses the world was being filtered through. Writing a book together lent itself well to our version of brotherhood. I can say that now, but we had “creative differences” from time to time.