User blog comment:JERealize/Announcing DSD/@comment-5424252-20150803101555/@comment-3483396-20150806051342

To be honest, the "six co-hosts" is more a gimmick then anything. There really are two true co-hosts; the four are more like assistants/interns leveraged to work with the main co-hosts for reasons to be revealed later in the story (and who would have a dedicated episode to each of them for the co-host challenges). As for the OCs, I wanted to get rid of the "fanfiction" label that gave so many stories a bad name by association and I wanted to make something that people won't identify with something else.

And to be honest, I have to agree with Dainted; this would work better as a scripted television show, and if that's the case, the problem is pitching it. In the case of writing it in prose, the problem is keeping myself and my ideas in check. This is why I seek a team these days for writing any of my stories. I kind of know the big twist at the end, but not the character elimination order or the challenges, and it would really help if I got some pointers. Besides, most things you've never heard of before (such as ESC voting, at least to Dyna) sound complex on paper, but are easier to understand in practice, so you never know.

(Also, Gideon, I did say "preferably". I did not mean to mislead you.)