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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 round robin may also be called an
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Furthermore, it's hard to give a '''Round Robin''' an actual ending, since even when all the plot points are wrapped up, someone will likely reveal that this was all the villain's [[Evil Plan]], or [[Diabolus Ex Machina|another mega-powerful villain will show up suddenly]] - all in a desperate try to lengthen the story for at least as many pages; of course, it won't work, since everyone else are tired of the story already, and so the Round Robin will never get a proper ending.
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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 [[Fanfic]].
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* ''Dash & Lily's Book of Dares'' was alternately written by a husband and wife over e-mail. Notably, [[Invoked Trope|this fits with the theme within the actual book,]] seeing as the titular Dash and Lily communicated by writing in the same journal one after the other.
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* In a way, virtually every TV show ever follows this. After all, the individual episodes in a [[Story Arc]] are typically penned by different writers. Examples are obviously too numerous to list.
** The difference is, most showrunners have a preplanned outline for the season, or perhaps the whole series, which the staff writers must follow. Often the storylines for individual episodes are written by the showrunner or the staff, the credited writer cranks out a draft in teleplay format, and the scripts are then revised once again by the showrunner and staff.
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[[Category:Literary Tropes]]
[[Category:Fanfic Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Round Robin]]
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