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A Round Robin is a story written collaboratively by a group of authors, each of whom takes a turn writing a chapter or section; the chapters are produced in chronological order, or at least in the order in which they are intended to be read. There is no agreed-upon outline for the overall plot, and the authors are all free to take the story in whatever direction they wish when it is their turn to write a section, without consulting the others, leaving those who follow to deal with the consequences of what they have written. By the same token, each must accept what previous contributors have written. A classic Round Robin has each person writing multiple parts, repeating the same order of authors each round. Variations include each author writing a single part or the authors writing multiple parts without a pattern to the repetition, perhaps not even producing the same number of parts. Another simple variation is to have the same person write both the first and last parts. A variant on the Round Robin format restricts the author's knowledge of what has come before. Typically in this variant, each new writer will be given only the immediately preceding chapter, and must extrapolate how things got there. Needless to say, this is done only as an intentional gambit to produce amusingly incoherent results; more so the shorter each chapter is. This variant reaches its ultimate expression in comic strips where each participant is given only a single panel. This variant is often called "exquisite corpse", after a famous phrase created by this method. A Round Robin presents a number of obvious storytelling dangers, including Flanderization, Character Derailment, Kudzu Plot, Mood Whiplash, Plot Holes, Retcon, Spotlight-Stealing Squad, and worst of all Dead Fic if someone fails to go through their turn. In general, the most major danger of a Round Robin is that each author tends to be more eager to introduce and concentrate on his own characters and subplots, rather than on the characters introduced previously. A less common problem is when the Round Robin refuses to get capped off with an actual ending, because it's hard to decide and agree when should the authors stop piling on new plot points and péripéties and just aim to wrap up what has been already written. A modern day Round Robin only rarely results in a publishable work. It is more commonly produced for the authors' own amusement. It has also been used in Fan Fic. The Round Robin may be one of The Oldest Ones in the Book, as plots involving a group of people sitting down around a fire (or whatever) to tell a story testify. The same concept also exists in the art world, where various artists will take turns adding to a drawing; this is called an "Exquisite Corpse". For a similar concept applied to Video Games, see Succession Game. For those of you looking for competitive round robins seen in sports, Tournament Arc may be the page to go to. |
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As mentioned above, Supermarket Sweep had the Round Robin game, where each member of a team (three pairs of two) would alternate solving product name anagrams, getting more sweep time — and right after that came the Big Sweep, so it could be important in how much time a team got for that. | |
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Dark Heart High and Magical Girl Hunters are two examples of Improfanfic series. | |
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The Great Starship Battle was written by several people taking turns writing each section. | |
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The Whose Line Is It Anyway? game "Three-Headed Broadway Star" featured the players making up a "hit Broadway love song" Round Robin-style, one word at a time. They had more games like these, for instance the Irish Drinking Song. | |
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The 39 Clues was written by a different author each book, beginning with Rick Riordan and ending with Margaret Peterson Haddix. The sequel series continued the trend. | |
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Sorcery and Cecelia combines the Round Robin with the epistolary novel. | |
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The TV movies of Script Fic Calvin & Hobbes: The Series are co-written by Swing 123 and garfieldodie. | |
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The Whateley Universe story "Parents' Day", which worked out in the end but took about two years to get written. Word of God says they are never going to try that again. | |
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CAPOW Anime Prose Original Writing; see the link for more details. | |
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And its sparring partner on Lifetime and Pax, Shop 'Til You Drop, had a similar round called the "Shopper's Challenge", where the two teams would swap positions and answer rapid-fire questions- whichever team got the most points by the end of the round would move on to the Shop Til They Drop round. Notably, this was one of the few elements kept intact when the show was heavily revamped in 2003 (and not for the better). | |
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The She-Hulk story The Time of Her Life was a very interesting artistic Round Robin. Each artist drew a two pages from the comic in sequence. it was an excellent example of how things can vary depending on the artist. She-Hulk varied from huge 80s perm to normal 00s hair, from bodybuilder to slender in physique, from normal to vast in bust... Etc etc. If memory serves, there was only one writer, however. | |
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Four Rooms is a Round Robin Anthology film by four writer/directors about Ted the Bellhop's terrible New Year's Eve. As the only character in all four segments, Ted's characterization varies wildly Depending on the Writer. | |
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Cragne Manor is a collaboration between over 80 Interactive Fiction authors. Each author was assigned to write a room on their own, with basic information of what their room was and how it would fit into the game, but they didn't know what would be going on in anyone else's rooms. | |
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"Alice in Panel-land" (now defunct), a round-robin improvisational retelling of Alice in Wonderland with elements of Alice In Sexland using Scott McCloud's idea of the internet as an infinite canvas and comic book-style rectangular panels as the self-imposed direction and restriction to how the story could be told. | |
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Addventure, an early attempt at an online implementation of such a story. | |
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The mini-series Full Circle is another round robin comic, with seven writers and eight artists telling a story about Spider-Man travelling the world on a mission from S.H.I.E.L.D.. | |
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The Renegades is a Kingdom Hearts fic that has three people writing its chapters in a circular fashion, as well as special excerpts written by all of the authors or a one-off chapter written out of turn, which all eventually connect to the main storyline. | |
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There is a type of Round Robin used in the 18th century novella Little Women, where most of the characters take 'turns' to tell a long story during a garden party to 'entertain' themselves... | |
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Thieves' World, a dark, urban fantasy cycle mostly focused on the desert town of Sanctuary. Its contributors include such names as Poul Anderson, C. J. Cherryh and Marion Zimmer Bradley. | |
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DC Challenge is a rare comic book example where each issue had a different author except the final one, which is a collaboration between several authors. Each part ended with at least one cliffhanger and usually several, which the next writer had to figure out how to resolve. One additional rule is that writers who were already writing for certain characters' books were not allowed to use those characters here, and so had to get their characters out of their chapter as soon as possible. Kamandi Challenge was a spiritual successor to the above in honor of Jack Kirby, with each chapter featuring Kamandi. |
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Atlanta Nights, which was specifically written to be an enormous, Plot Hole-ridden mess. | |
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The Bantam Era actually defied this trope to an extent. Authors usually stayed on for the entire series, and many were standalone novels. Legacy of the Force suffers from this in a huge way, partly because it was nine books, essentially three trilogies, and all three authors were writing independently at the same time. So, there would be stuff in Book 1 directly contradicted in Book 2. Naturally, pet characters were abound, but rarely saw a huge role in the other two authors's work | |
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day was this with writers changing for each story or even during the same story and one issue even has three writers, one establishing main event and then them all dealing with an aftermath from different standpoints. The mini-series Full Circle is another round robin comic, with seven writers and eight artists telling a story about Spider-Man travelling the world on a mission from S.H.I.E.L.D.. |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic scene, at least two groups decided—completely independently—to make exquisite corpse fics. Ponemurdered was a long collaboration between 14 big names in the fanfic community. It appears to have been a one-time project. The Insaneponyauthor group is composed of tropers. They write one-shot fics (of which there are half a dozen so far), and the contributors vary from story to story. There's also the collaboration fic Multiversal Harmony which is a crossover of 6 different fan universes in a 7th setting, where each author was asked to contribute one arc. |
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The Doctor Who fanfic community has had a number of Round Robins spawned from the This Time Round Meta Fic setting, including several Pro-Fun Hoedowns (in which Author Avatars and DW characters get together for a party, only for Complications To Occur) and Dark Carnival (in which a Circus of Fear arrives in Nameless). Sadly, both Dark Carnival and the most recent Hoedown are currently Dead Fics. | |
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Misery: Mentioned by Paul Sheldon as a game he played in his youth under the name "Can You?" It taught him how to tell stories in a believable manner, and provides him with the strength to begin his Scheherezade Gambit against Annie. | |
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Fiasco has a similar principle: each player gets four turns, on which they can either set up or resolve a scene with their own character in the spotlight. If they set up their scene, other players vote on whether it ends well for their character or not, and they must incorporate it into the story; if the player resolves the scene, they get to choose the outcome, but other players set it up for them. | |
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Black Trillium was written by Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley and Julian May in this fashion: each of them wrote chapters about her respective heroine (Kadya, Haramis, and Anigel, accordingly), which were then compiled and edited into a single novel. However, the collaboration proved so stressful for all of them that they continued writing in the same universe independently, effectively creating three different continuities after BT. | |
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Much of the Star Wars Legends works out to be this, but with entire books and even trilogies; there are many writers who often go in completely different directions. The Bantam Era actually defied this trope to an extent. Authors usually stayed on for the entire series, and many were standalone novels. Legacy of the Force suffers from this in a huge way, partly because it was nine books, essentially three trilogies, and all three authors were writing independently at the same time. So, there would be stuff in Book 1 directly contradicted in Book 2. Naturally, pet characters were abound, but rarely saw a huge role in the other two authors's work |
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There's also the collaboration fic Multiversal Harmony which is a crossover of 6 different fan universes in a 7th setting, where each author was asked to contribute one arc. | |
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