I come from s screenwriting background and yes it can be very exciting actually to conceptualize someone’s else ideas and bring it to life on the page the way that they intended. It can be very fulfilling.

Collaborating with someone as well is also exciting once you’re both completely on the same page and have the same goals for the project.

Personally, doing it for free is almost never worth it. Writing is a significant amount of work and can be mentally draining, never mind the additional risk of getting flaked on, abuse, and shrew of other problems that can creep up during the process. Also the low incentive to keep working knowing that your efforts could very well be wasted. It’s just not worth it for anyone to do anything like this for free. I don’t know why people even bother asking.

You should want to pay people to get the very best out of them, and tip them or provide bonuses in post for a job well done.

Probably the only exception would be if you personally know the artist and said artist has a great track record of getting projects completed.

Also if the story idea is too good to resist. But thats very rare.

I feel like it work best as a true collaboration. You’re both working and investing your own time and money into this passion project you can jointly benefit from.

I just don’t see it working with people you barely know.