Writing for MORT! is hard. D:

*Probably gonnabe some whining ahead*

Following the hostile takeover thing I^Mort did on April first, I've decided to really crack down and start work on getting Mort into that animated series I always promised him... ever since I stopped thinking I wanted to do the comic thing.

So, I've been contacting people about voice acting and rounding up a few volunteers who would be happy just to do it, and all that's going good and everything, but now I've hit a snag.

I told them each I'd get in touch with them once I got at least some of the script for the pilot written up. At that point, they could send in auditions, I could pick who I wanted to play whom, and we would go from there. So, the script has been the thing I've been trying to work up on and off all month.

But now I've come to a spot where I find myself unable to proceed. I know the basic plot of the episode and the conflict, but I don't know how I'm going to go about resolving it. It's a character-driven conflict centered around Mort's sidekick and best friend Chuck the Duck, so it needs to have a character-driven resolution centered around the same guy.

Thing is, I have no idea how I want to work in this resolution! I have no idea what kind of situation or circumstance I could use to bring about the end of the episode's main conflict. You can contact me for more details if you want to lend some brainstorming, but at the same time, no one knows Mort or Chuck like I do, and I don't want to make them do something that I feel, as characters, they wouldn't do.

On the one hand, I feel I can't figure this out without some outside input. On the other, I don't want to divulge too much or give writing privileges away to someone else. I kind of want this to be my thing, and there's sort of this fear of letting go. Like if I let someone in on too much, they'll either take over and make MORT! something I never intended it to be, or they'll drop contact with me, take my best ideas, and create their own thing, leaving me looking like the copycat when MORT! finally comes out.

Besides that, I really don't want to give somebody what will basically amount to a job without being able to pay them for their work. I'm pretty sure it's illegal to begin with, and on top of that, I don't know if I could live with myself, ripping off free labor from people.

Look, tl;dr, I seriously need a second set of eyes for this thing, but I have my hangups. I, however, probably won't be able to get anywhere without some big help.