Round Robin
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Well, the Round Robin has come to a timely (for reasons you'll see shortly) end - thank you to everyone who contributed!
The entire story can be found here: Round Robin 2007 at the moment, and of course individual contributions are in the post below.
As of right now, the only overall editing that has been done has been a quick check for typos and making the spelling consistently British. I'm sure I've missed things, so any comments suggesting similar edits (but not plot, please!) will be gratefully received below - and hopefully the individual authors will respond if a comment concerns their contribution, so that a decision can be made whether to accept the suggested edit or not!
Also - we need a title! Please comment below with suggestions for that too, and we will try to come up with a consensus choice!
It might also be useful to have a pseudonym for posting at the archives, rather than trying to have it listed under every individual name - what do authors think of this? Individual authors could still be credited in a Note (and I think should be). Would you be happy to use "Dialj" as a pseud? Or does anyone have a much better idea (that all authors would have to agree with, please!)?
Once the title, pseud and edits are agreed, I'll post the final link to various Pros comms, and send it to the archivists as well, if everyone is happy with that.
And finally - a big hurrah for everyone who contributed. Keeping up has been alot of fun, and the final word count is over 13 000!
The entire story can be found here: Round Robin 2007 at the moment, and of course individual contributions are in the post below.
As of right now, the only overall editing that has been done has been a quick check for typos and making the spelling consistently British. I'm sure I've missed things, so any comments suggesting similar edits (but not plot, please!) will be gratefully received below - and hopefully the individual authors will respond if a comment concerns their contribution, so that a decision can be made whether to accept the suggested edit or not!
Also - we need a title! Please comment below with suggestions for that too, and we will try to come up with a consensus choice!
It might also be useful to have a pseudonym for posting at the archives, rather than trying to have it listed under every individual name - what do authors think of this? Individual authors could still be credited in a Note (and I think should be). Would you be happy to use "Dialj" as a pseud? Or does anyone have a much better idea (that all authors would have to agree with, please!)?
Once the title, pseud and edits are agreed, I'll post the final link to various Pros comms, and send it to the archivists as well, if everyone is happy with that.
And finally - a big hurrah for everyone who contributed. Keeping up has been alot of fun, and the final word count is over 13 000!
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Date: 2007-02-21 08:05 pm (UTC)I'm useless at titles, so I'll leave that to others. (The best I can come up with is Round and Round the Mulberry Bush *g*) I'm happy to use "Dialj" as a pseudonym.
Thank you for an entertaining few weeks!
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Date: 2007-02-21 09:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-21 08:19 pm (UTC)Brit would be to use beds not cots, to mean any sort of single, adult sleeping-contraption (cots are for babies to sleep in). Or maybe camp bed, if you wanted something more descriptive? Or..?
When I'm reading, I tend to hear "fellah" in an American or Australian accent, and "feller" in an English one, so the latter would be better spelling for an English character?
We don't commonly have "corded" wood in the UK, so "stacked like firewood" might be a better simile.
Brits tend to be "pissed off" rather than "pissed" when they're angry. Being pissed involves a lot more gin or single malt...
"“Cowley said we were snatched by PGM,” Jax said." Should that be "you were snatched"?
Shmaffty? Is this a Pros-era UK term?
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Date: 2007-02-21 08:29 pm (UTC)Anyway, feel free to change/correct anything you like in my contributions! "Stacked like firewood" is one of mine, I think. And it sounds fine to me.
Edit-y stuff... I'm not sure all the breaks are in quite the right places. There's a few bits I noticed that seem to chunk together bits that ought to be separate in a timeline sense, such as where Doyle's dabbing at the scratch on Bodie's face. That can't come right after the cat attack, if it's the umpteenth time he's asked if Bodie's okay.
Would it be easier to put the little graphic break things between each contribution? Or would that make it too choppy?
Just to make life more difficult you know... ;-)
Title... um, what about something to do with Tiddles? Chasing Tiddles? ;-) I'm rotten at titles.
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Date: 2007-02-21 08:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-21 09:08 pm (UTC)Alternatively:
The Story of a Fierce Bad Cat
The Tale of One Bad Cat
(But I think I like yours best!)
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Date: 2007-02-21 09:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, the breaks were a rush-job this morning (I'm supposed to be writing a proposal!), I had a feeling I'd probably missed a bunch of those. I'll go back and check again when I get a chance. I deliberately didn't put in a break between each contribution to make it more of a story and less of a round robin, but if people would prefer it the other way around..?
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Date: 2007-02-21 09:40 pm (UTC)Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-21 08:41 pm (UTC)Re: Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-21 08:45 pm (UTC)Re: Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-21 09:14 pm (UTC)Re: Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-21 09:38 pm (UTC)Re: Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-21 11:06 pm (UTC)Re: Shmaffty
Date: 2007-02-22 04:46 pm (UTC)(And I'm not sure, are seventies flyboys any good? *g*)
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Date: 2007-02-21 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-21 08:23 pm (UTC)Bravo and thank you indeed! All done in a great spirit of collaboration and generosity which has got to be a good thing. (Also a bit like being on a runaway train, only funnier.)
I'm happy with Dialj as a pseud too, and altho I know there's a great title out there somewhere I don't know what it is *g*
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Date: 2007-02-21 09:02 pm (UTC)Over 13,000? Well, we have been busy, haven't we?
It was great fun and thank you to
And thanks to everyone who took part and made it such fun.
Looking forward to the next challenge. :)
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Date: 2007-02-21 09:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-21 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-22 03:35 pm (UTC)The complete stroy looks great the way you've got it up right now, and I'm perfectly happy for you to edit my contributions anyway you see fit. As for a title, I love Jojo's The Tale of Vladimir and Tiddles.
Now I have to wrap my head round gluttony...:))
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Date: 2007-02-22 04:42 pm (UTC)Well, I personally think that any word edits etc should be either author-of-the-individual-bit's request, or else group agreement, but I also don't think there's much that would come up! Everyone did a great job. My only questions (well, so far I guess!) is about those Brit-isms...
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Date: 2007-02-22 07:04 pm (UTC)And I love the titles you came up with! - I'm still going for the Tiddles one - how can I not?? Though I also like the sound of 'The One About The Russian, The Maori and the Werecat', which also sounds very Brit-like and kooky.
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Date: 2007-02-22 04:52 pm (UTC)Once Upon A Werecat (cos of the whole slightly-surreal thing!)
A Tale of Tiddles (like Jojo's, only without Vladimir for the alliteration!)
Just A Little Sex (cos that's all they wanted, and it's completely evilly misleading cos of course there's none in the fic...)
The One About The Russian, The Maori and the Werecat
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Date: 2007-02-23 05:03 pm (UTC)Personally, I like A Tale of Tiddles for the title. It has the advantages of brevity & alliteration, not to mention that hint of weirdness which would come to light when anyone reads the finished product!