Quoting%20commentary for Gittin 7:2

אָמְרוּ לוֹ, נִכְתֹּב גֵּט לְאִשְׁתֶּךָ, וְאָמַר לָהֶם כְּתֹבוּ, אָמְרוּ לַסּוֹפֵר וְכָתַב, וְלָעֵדִים וְחָתְמוּ, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁכְּתָבוּהוּ וַחֲתָמוּהוּ וּנְתָנוּהוּ לוֹ וְחָזַר וּנְתָנוֹ לָהּ, הֲרֵי הַגֵּט בָּטֵל, עַד שֶׁיֹּאמַר לַסּוֹפֵר כְּתֹב וְלָעֵדִים חֲתֹמוּ:

If they said to him [a healthy person (embarking on a journey) or a sage at the point of death: "Let us write a get to your wife [so that she not require yibum] and he said: "Write" — if they spoke to the scribe and he wrote it, and to the witnesses, and they signed it, even if they wrote it and signed it and gave it to him, and he then gave it to her, the get is void, until he tells the scribe to write and the witnesses to sign.

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