Quote: T5 said: The one rule I would love for all to follow is: Set each other up!
Use cliffhangers and sometimes twist the story with a surprising revelation or happening that no one could have guessed. to make it more dynamic. And when it is done, no whimpering about "Hey I wanted to go in this or that direction", just go with the flow, allow your imagination to adapt to the consequences of the last post.
This way it becomes a challenge, not only for your general writing skills, but also for your imagination to work out a solution for any kind of scene we create.
I think this is a good suggestion, but it should be better detailed.
I like the idea of challenging. It's the base of round robin.
But, it require
•respect for the characters. I wronged in a big way regarding this in the past, let's not repeat this.
•respect for the story. A one post solving of a previously created situation is not an acceptable solution.
but also:
•respect for the round robin. The story and the serie is in the hand of the collectivity, so no one can reserve a particular place (Mandelovia, La Perdita, Hell...), theme (aliens, mythical gods, secret societies, boy scouts...) or time (ancient Atlantis, the far future, ten years from now...).
Nor one could expect to develop a long plot for future fruition without anyone touching the matter.
Once something is written in the collective ongoing story, it should be handled by anyone in the direction he feels. If you want to do things away from the free reign of everyone, do it in solos... but they become canonical only once they are in the collective story.
This is how I see the round robin.
There is one other issue, that was brought once by a possible newcomer (was him PigIron, maybe? I don't remember...) that suggested that we shoudl keep a fixed lineup even if writers come and go.
I honestly think it was a good idea. To follow that suggestion, we should start our story with the characters of the posters who join the writing, and then continue to use them even if the posters stop to post.
I leave to the majority of the interested people to accept or discard this suggestion...
