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In article <3b1bjk$l7n@feedback.eng.umd.edu> jblum@Glue.umd.edu (Jonathan Blum) writes:
>A couple of folks in r.a.dw have suggested moderating a round-robin
>story.
>
>I'd love to write another one of those... but why moderate it?

Primarily so that each person gets to write their piece, without
holding up everybody else.

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Jonathan Blum (jblum@Glue.umd.edu) declared:
: A couple of folks in r.a.dw have suggested moderating a round-robin
: story.

One still exists. In The Bleak Midwinter is still going (though it's been on
hold recently due to Net-Decalog). I will post the whole thing again soon when
the next person has contributed.

: I'd love to write another one of those... but why moderate it?

Well we're trying to keep it sensible and make some sort of sense!

: Half the fun of a round-robin is watching everyone else try to make
: sense of what the other writers are throwing at them.  So what if
: there are contradictions, or multiple followups?  Way back in the
: Dark Ages when I was on a local BBS called Gallifrey (no relation
: to anything connected to Dave), we had two followups to one pass-around
: story segment, each of which spawned a completely separate storyline.
: And no one had any problem with that.

By all means go for it. I have no objection. I may even contribute!

: I'd love to see a pass-around story, but with no limits on it.  After
: all, if the round-robins had been moderated before, S'Dragon and I
: couldn't have turned Dave's isolationist-Gallifrey story into an
: Animaniacs crossover.  :-)

Yes, that's what I was afraid of ;)

: Regards,
: Jon Blum

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jca@netcom.com (James Armstrong) writes:

>In article <3b1bjk$l7n@feedback.eng.umd.edu> jblum@Glue.umd.edu (Jonathan Blum) writes:
>>A couple of folks in r.a.dw have suggested moderating a round-robin
>>story.
>>
>>I'd love to write another one of those... but why moderate it?

>Primarily so that each person gets to write their piece, without
>holding up everybody else.

I'll be in that. Just tell me how!

Dayna.

jblum@Glue.umd.edu (Jonathan Blum) writes:

> A couple of folks in r.a.dw have suggested moderating a round-robin
> story.
>
> I'd love to write another one of those... but why moderate it?
>
> Half the fun of a round-robin is watching everyone else try to make
> sense of what the other writers are throwing at them.  So what if
> there are contradictions, or multiple followups?  Way back in the
> Dark Ages when I was on a local BBS called Gallifrey (no relation
> to anything connected to Dave), we had two followups to one pass-around
> story segment, each of which spawned a completely separate storyline.
> And no one had any problem with that.

They can't go OInternet with that one.

>
> I'd love to see a pass-around story, but with no limits on it.  After
> all, if the round-robins had been moderated before, S'Dragon and I
> couldn't have turned Dave's isolationist-Gallifrey story into an
> Animaniacs crossover.  :-)

If only I COULd have seen it. UGH!!

BTW, the next idea is out.

>
> Regards,
> Jon Blum
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> "All this time you two thought you were playing some twisted game of
> chess...  when it was just me playing solitaire!"
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