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Because they planned the overarching plot, from beginning of story to end of story including the defeat of Salem.

Now, that was just the overarching plot mind. The nitty gritty details they are absolutely writing as they go, basically just writing to reach major plot points all three of them figured out beforehand. Monty didn't get too involved in this aspect - he purposefully left this to Miles and Kerry because he knew he wasn't a good writer. His forte was animation and fights, and he knew that.

That being said, Monty also made sure to tell them if he had a specific thing in mind for a character; he wasn't afraid to go up to them and say "this has to happen for this character" and Miles and Kerry would write that in. He shared his ideas with them because he knew they needed to know them in order to write the story. Hell, he even shared plot things with VAs and Jeff so they could react properly, and so Jeff could write songs that tied into the character best. Jen Brown knew Pyrrha was going to die from the very beginning, for example. And Monty was apparently adamant that one of the characters would be gay - but we don't know who it is yet, because sexual orientation doesn't define a character.