h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Damn, that's the first time we've got ahead of ourselves. I guess that's you penciled in for episode six then.





Does anyone have a pencil?

Plenty - what'll you have? I have everything from H to 5B kicking around on my desk.

Umm... I don't know, can you pass me a 5b? I was in class 5b when I was 9.

What is a 5b anyway?

am doing 6 or 7 ?

Both


You're not doing the next one, but the one after that. I think that's episdoe seven.

ok should I infinte imporpablity my articles now

I'm doing the next one, which is 6, I think, but I suppose the one after that could be 6b.

I thought the IID bit was already done for you.

That's the one button I am allowed to press!


Yes, when Beatrice has written her story, I shall provide 5 more IIDs for Episode 7

Wow, that's fantastic!

Sereph, would episode eight be OK with you, too? Seems they all forgot your post in their enthusiasm about another volunteer.

Guilty, I'm afraid. It was getting a little too close to the deadline for my liking, sorry Sereph.

Oh, we weren't talking about episode six for Sereph - Beatrice has taken care of that - you just wait

I think it would be nice to have a male writer once again, so if that's fine with Serephina, maybe Beowulf could take on episode seven and Sereph could do no #8?

That sounds like a good idea, there hasn't been a single explosion so far. Nobody's even been vaguely shot at.

Oh, but you don't know yet what Bea wrote- but I do.

That's fine, I'm enjoying being surprised every fortnight.

Because we have decided that there will be exactly ten chapters, and auithors of chapters 8,9, and 10 will have the unenviable task of trying to tie up loose ends, would it make sense to decrease the number of Random Entries towards the end, or would that spoil the concept?

B

It's benjamin's baby, he decides.
Personally, I'm not sure why having to include five entries would make it more difficult than having ,say, two.

I have to agree with Bel on this one. There is no necessity for the author to use all five entries to develop the storyline, as some writers have done, it's fine for some of them to simply be referenced in the entry, so I don't see it as too much of an impedement, maybe it's a creative tool if anything.