User blog comment:That Epic/Wiki Project Reboot/@comment-26157209-20131230021626

I'll write...

But not that Im against the idea, but the main issue with the wiki project isn't that the users aren't around to collab. It's that they will get bored by the time it's their turn to write. Everyone will know who wins the story by the time the first chapter is actually written.

Unless you're going more of the route of after each chapter everyone gets together to think up new plot points and such for the next chapter? But again, less people would read the chapter because they would already know who would be eliminated.

Instead, I would suggest creating a bottom three-type plot. Where through the polls and other planning, the major points for the chapter are decided upon, but there's the bottom 3 that the indivual writer has to work with. For example, the bottom three for the first elimination chapter would be; Owen, Trent and Sadie. Who knows why, that would be up to the writer, but no one knows which of these three will be eliminated, but the three characters were all agreed upon via the polls. Then the author of the chapter will choose which of the characters they feel needs to be eliminated by the end of the chapter. This way, the elimination will feel more organic, being forced to write for an elimination you really don't want to happen can make it off-putting, (Dania in Frozen for example </3). Also, sometimes while writing a chapter new ideas spring into life, (Mitchel x Ivy) and those new ideas can effect the story line of the chapter and thus future eliminations. Ivy was supposed to be eliminated earlier than when she actually was in Frozen, but due to her new story she would shoved further into the story... (spoilers.. sorry.)

They don't actually have to be the last three to recieve their 'mellos- for example maybe Owen isn't on Trent and Sadie's team. Trent's team would lose and the reader knows that either Sadie or Trent is going home, but don't know which.

This idea doesn't have to be used, but I thought I would bring it up. There's no reason to spoil an entire chapter/story if it doesn't need to be.