Understood.  What is important to realize is that once you gather a group together to work on your story, it is no longer entirely your story.  Expecting them to provide you with all kinds of good ideas you can use or discard at your discretion is a formula for disaster.  Compensation probably should be giving them a sense that they have some control over the story, and aren't handing ideas over for your consumption.  That means if the original author's desire to expound on a dark cloaked figure in the shadowy corner with super powers is countermanded, discarded, ignored! then instead of becoming outraged or possessive, one must keep an open heart and mind, and consider that far from attacking your core, the next person down the line might be having a better idea.

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