Co-Writing in Indie Land - Is This Reasonable?

"I have a pretty good instinct for when to check in and say, are you okay with this? And also, by the way, if you're going to co-write in indie land, you really need to talk about budget upfront as well," she says. "It's better to iron all of that out upfront when there's no work that's been put in ... it's easier to say, now is this reasonable?"