Ox Herding Pictures Attempting to avoid, side step, ignore, hand off the responsibility. Realizing that, capable or not, the responsibility goes with the vision, the insight, the possibility—no matter how remote. A black swan to be sure.
The author must be a character in the story, since the story is essential to the story. The story is itself a character in the screen play. The finding of co-authors is a big part of the first part of the screen play.