I was reading about Charlie Chaplin the other day and found that it wasn't unusual at all for silent movies to be written without a script because... You don't really need one.<p>"Writing" has a few different aspects. One of them is developing the scenario, one of them is choosing specific words. There was a big fight about who was responsible for the creativity in the 1960s Marvel comics between Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. Illustrators worked closely with Lee to develop the story, but Lee had a special knack at the word-by-word level.<p>Kirby wrote this (excellent) book himself<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAC_(Buddy_Blank)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMAC_(Buddy_Blank)</a><p>Although he worked brilliantly as a "one man army" his writing was not so smooth as Lee's.