Dude, I've never thought much of the rodeo, but you make it sound fun! Maybe the one single time I went to a rodeo-like-esque thing in my childhood, there wasn't enough shiny? I might give it another chance someday.

And I've always had similar questions about how the collaborative fic thing works, so I'm interested to read the responses of the people who've done it. And, yeah, whenever I read a fic that I know has been written collaboratively, I try to guess who wrote what, but I'm not normally successful. Actually, I've beta'ed for one person pretty consistently, and she recently sent me one that she'd written with another person. I thought I was familiar enough with her writing style that in that instance, I'd know what was hers, but nope. The two styles must have flowed pretty well together. I should have thought to ask what method they used.