Round 4 Ends

[studyofrunning.livejournal.com]

IT'S OVER!

Thanks to glinda_penguin and lullabymoon for volunteering their time to make hourly posts, thus letting me actually sleep this weekend. Thanks as well to everyone who participated in (and in some cases, even advertised!) this round.

This is the wrap-up post for Round 4. Here you can brag about what you wrote, and offer up any other comments or suggestions you may have.

There is also a poll:

[Poll #1509864]

(I will probably be at Radcon from the 12th to the 14th. If not, I will be too busy being depressed about missing Radcon to run a comm.) Anyone who is even considering being here for Round 5 is encouraged to vote.

Comments

[clocketpatch]

I got 4,722 words of fic down onto that alt!EOT thing. Who knows if this will ever been finished or not, but the productivity makes me happy. Thanks for hosting this. It was a lot of fun.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Squee! I totally want to read that one!

(I suspect I'd rather read your version than watch the actual eps... *g*)

[clocketpatch]

You flatter me. The actual episodes have a sort of cracktastic charm all their own... (as well as giving any viewer a near critical dose of WTF-syrup)

I don't know if it'll get finished though. I'm not even finished the first act really, and there's still so much to get down. I've set myself rule with this as well: since I'm trying to fashion a better episode, I'm not allowed to cheat and use introspection, because you can't show that on television. As a result, I'm pretty sure it's going to end up being dry and boring as all get out.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind my butting in, I think you're making things much harder for yourself than they need to be. True, there are things you can do in writing that you can't do on TV, like introspection, but there are also things you can do on TV that you can't do in writing, like show the expression on someone's face. You're stuck with the disadvantages of the medium you're using, so why not allow yourself to at least use the advantages? I wouldn't call that "cheating" at all.

[clocketpatch]

It's a bit of a writing exercise for myself as well, just to see if I can do it. Odds are that I'll get frustrated half-way through and then spend the rest of the fic sitting inside the Master's head or something.