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A modern day [[Round Robin]] only rarely results in a publishable work. It is more commonly produced for the authors's own amusement. It has also been used in [[Fanfic]].

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 [[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.

[[TV Tropes]] itself [[Exquisite Corpse|has one.]]

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* ''[[DC Challenge]]'' is a rare comic book example where each issue had a different author except the final one. Each part ended with at least one [[Cliff Hanger]] and usually several, which the next writer had to figure out how to resolve.

* [http://piecesbooks.com/ Project Pieces] is an attempt to create a publishable comic where each panel is drawn by someone else. Within just a few pages it degenerated into a [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made On Drugs?|nonsensical stream-of-consciousness.]]

* [http://piecesbooks.com/ Project Pieces] is an attempt to create a publishable comic where each panel is drawn by someone else. Within just a few pages it degenerated into a [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made on Drugs?|nonsensical stream-of-consciousness.]]

* 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 Writer|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.

* 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 Writer|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.

* Done accidentally to the tune of [[Epic Fail]] in ''[[Countdown to Final Crisis]]'', because the writers and editors apparently couldn't be bothered to look at the preceding issues to keep track of the continuity. The art reflects this as well, not just in the [[Art Shift]] as the thing was handed from one creative team to the next, but in blatant [[Did Not Do the Research]] such as the incident where [[The Flash|the Pied Piper and Trickster]] fell out of a futuristic plane at sunset at the end of one issue, only for the beginning of the next issue to depict them falling out of a regular jet in the clear blue afternoon. Methinks the series would have been far more enjoyable if it really ''had'' been a giant crack-filled bit of fun on the writers's part.

* [[Brand New Day]] was this for [[Spider Man]] with writers changing for each story or even during the same story and one issue even has three writers, one estabilishing main event and then them all dealing with an aftermath from different standpoints.

* [[Brand New Day]] was this for [[Spider-Man]] with writers changing for each story or even during the same story and one issue even has three writers, one estabilishing main event and then them all dealing with an aftermath from different standpoints.

== [[Fanfic]] ==

* The [http://addventure.bast-enterprises.de/ Anime Addventure (sic)] is an entire site devoted to Round Robin-style writing, using a branching tree structure similar to a "Choose Your Own Adventure" book; anyone can join in on any plotline by simply picking an option from the end of the most recent episode and writing an installment about it.

* [[~~CAPOW (Literature)|~~CAPOW]] [http://capow.tripod.com(Creative Anime Prose Original Writing]; see the link for more details.

* [[CAPOW]] [http://capow.tripod.com(Creative Anime Prose Original Writing]; see the link for more details.

* [http://www.grit-page.net/ The Global Ranma Insanity Thread], a combination round robin and text-based roleplay (with, effectively, everybody acting as the Gamemaster) that started on the rec.arts.anime.misc newsgroup and has since migrated to a mailing list.

* [http://www.improfanfic.com/ Improfanfic], which involves signups and deadlines to help keep the story moving along at a reasonable pace; unfortunately, this doesn't always work and many stories have since just ground to a halt after the signups withered away.

** It was reasonably successful for a few years, enough to have [[Spin Offs]], such as [http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net Indie Madnesse], but all these sites faced the same problems.

** ''[[Dark Heart High]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Hunters]]'' are two examples of Improfanfic series.

* ''[[~~The Renegades (Fanfic)|~~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.

* ''[[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.

* [http://forum.boomansion.net/index.php?showtopic=430 Thwomp goes to the Chocolate Factory], shared between three Brits, is a particularly hilarious example. It begins with a [[Super Mario Bros|Thwomp]] attempting suicide due to boredom at his job as manager of the titular factory, and just gets weirder from there.

* [http://forum.boomansion.net/index.php?showtopic=430 Thwomp goes to the Chocolate Factory], shared between three Brits, is a particularly hilarious example. It begins with a [[Super Mario Bros.|Thwomp]] attempting suicide due to boredom at his job as manager of the titular factory, and just gets weirder from there.

* The [[Made for TV Movie|TV movies]] of [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes The Series ~~(Fanfic)~~|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' are co-written by Swing123 and garfieldodie.

* The [[Made for TV Movie|TV movies]] of [[Script Fic]] ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'' are co-written by Swing123 and garfieldodie.

== [[Film]] ==

* [[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]].

* [[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]].

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[~~Sorcery and Cecelia (Literature)|~~Sorcery and Cecelia]]'' combines the Round Robin with the [[Epistolary Novel]].

* ''[[Sorcery and Cecelia]]'' combines the Round Robin with the [[Epistolary Novel]].

* Parodied relentlessly by Mark Twain in ''Roughing It'' with a chapter about a literary magazine's serialized novel of this form.

* ''[[Cronicas De UP]]''

* There is a type of [[Round Robin]] used in the 18th century novella [[Little Women]], where ''most'' of the characters take 'turns's to tell a long story during a garden party to 'entertain' themselves...

* ''[[~~Black Trillium (Literature)|~~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 ([[Lady of War|Kadya]], [[Badass Bookworm|Haramis]], and [[Princess Classic|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''.

* ''[[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 ([[Lady of War|Kadya]], [[Badass Bookworm|Haramis]], and [[Princess Classic|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''.

* ''[[Atlanta Nights]]'', which was specifically written an enormous, [[Plot Hole]]-ridden mess.

* ''The Floating Admiral'', a [[Round Robin]] detective story done by many of the great detective authors of the 1920's and 1930's, with each chapter done by a different author, who had to figure out without hints what needed to be deduced from the previous chapters, with the final chapter requiring real detective skills to figure out how to wrap up the plot.

* ''The cruise : a novel of murder and romance'' was a collaborative effort with many famous (and infamous) British authors including [[Maeve Binchy]].

* ''Behind the Screen'' is a short story written by several mystery fiction writers, including [[~~Agatha Christie (Creator)|~~Agatha Christie]], Dorothy L. Sayers and Hugh Walpole.

* ''Behind the Screen'' is a short story written by several mystery fiction writers, including [[Agatha Christie]], Dorothy L. Sayers and Hugh Walpole.

* Much of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] 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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* 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.

* 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.

* 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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== [[Web Original]] ==

* [[~~The Mad Scientist Wars (Fanfic)|~~The Mad Scientist Wars]]

* [[The Mad Scientist Wars]]

* ''[[Draw Your Own Story]]''

* 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.