User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/LTDI Update/Preview: One Year in the Making/@comment-1956487-20110703171106/@comment-1874924-20110707023301

If you've read TDI-G&S, or any significant portion of it, you know that I have a lot of fun with character nicknames/descriptions. And believe me, I'm as anxious to finish LTDI as you are to read it, which is to say not so anxious as to be willing to compromise the story's quality. (I've always been a perfectionist, which I'm sure will come as a surprise to no one.)

In addition to certain "for want of a nail" changes (e.g. having Sadie switch teams instead of Katie, making TDDDDI a team challenge, and playing for drama vs. playing for laughs) there will be some changes that are more overtly major. Most notable of these is that I am trying to make LTDI more of an ensemble story than the original. I'm trying to give even the backgrounders and early outs moments to shine. In addition to broadening the story's appeal, this will help to avoid inadvertently telegraphing eliminations. (Some eliminations, of course may be telegraphed on purpose. In these cases, the real drama will be in the vote scrounging, rather than in the ceremony.)