I know, I'm just having a momentary crisis of confidence here... I'll stop feeling sorry for myself in a minute and normal service will be resumed.

Except for one brief project back in my POTC days ( which actually worked very well, I have to say) I've always written alone. That's partly because it's hard for me to schedule in regular writing time, and partly because my brain flits around too much (although I can see that working with another writer might have a positive effect on the latter.

I suspect I've been a lone wolf too long, and am too much of a control freak...