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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5399304" data-attributes="member: 54877">I think you are partially disagreeing with something I didn't say. I said, &quot;It's true that it is difficult to get a single, central conflict without a single author. &quot; Note the &quot;without&quot;. If you want a single, central conflict--it is much easier to get it if you have single author. I was saying that to contrast with all the other stuff you had listed, and versus your implication that the only way to get those with any ease was via a single author. Since I can easily get all the rest of it with multiple authors, and prefer mulitple twining conflicts, the difficulty of producing a cohesive, single conflict is not one that bothers me.&nbsp;Also, I suspect that we are not quite on the same page with what twining conflicts means. I suspect you are still thinking about twining conflicts from the same author. If you want the conflicts to twine in a scripted manner, ultimately to a scripted story, then yeah ... you need that single author even more. OTOH, if you want the conflicts to arise out of a agreed-upon setting and characters with well-defined motivations, placed into situations likely to lead to some kind of conflict, then ... multiple authors are apt to lead to more surprises, mysteries, etc. I'll grant there is an art to building such situations collaboratively, but it ain't rocket science. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5399304, member: 54877"] I think you are partially disagreeing with something I didn't say. I said, "It's true that it is difficult to get a single, central conflict without a single author. " Note the "without". If you want a single, central conflict--it is much easier to get it if you have single author. I was saying that to contrast with all the other stuff you had listed, and versus your implication that the only way to get those with any ease was via a single author. Since I can easily get all the rest of it with multiple authors, and prefer mulitple twining conflicts, the difficulty of producing a cohesive, single conflict is not one that bothers me. Also, I suspect that we are not quite on the same page with what twining conflicts means. I suspect you are still thinking about twining conflicts from the same author. If you want the conflicts to twine in a scripted manner, ultimately to a scripted story, then yeah ... you need that single author even more. OTOH, if you want the conflicts to arise out of a agreed-upon setting and characters with well-defined motivations, placed into situations likely to lead to some kind of conflict, then ... multiple authors are apt to lead to more surprises, mysteries, etc. I'll grant there is an art to building such situations collaboratively, but it ain't rocket science. :) [/QUOTE]

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