[spoilers] Ruth's Diary

[almh]

The personal files are really useful, but if you would like I think that we could post a summary of the key points up somewhere for you to access, so that you know any information required about Ruth.

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OK, so at the moment there are 4 of us Anyone else who wants to join please let us know ASAP because I have to give the names to Nitrus.

Here seems like as good a place as any to make a start. If anyone has any suggestions or ideas at any point, let me know. These are just my ideas, so obviously they aren't rules and they aren't perfect so any changes you think would be necessary, let me know. I don't bite (I promise!)

So, here is what's gone on so far. Nitrus PMed me to say he likes the idea, and will set up a sub-forum for us in the Character Area just for posts to Ruth's Diary. Only the people involved in Ruth's Diary will be able to post on the area, so obviously I need to know who's involved so I can tell Nitrus. At the moment the people involved are:

Me (ALMH)
Beatriz
JHyde
Tea Lady

If there's anyone else let me know. We will have some rules for Ruth's Diary from Nitrus, but they're things like people must contribute equally, and we have to put the date and title in the subject part of each thread, but they're only minor things.

The first thing we really need to decide is when do we start from. I personally think that we should start with her life before GCHQ, just because in my opinion she has so much of an interesting past it would be a shame not to write about it. Anyone have any opinions on this?

The second point would be how are we going to write this? Please remember to jump in and say if you don't like this idea, but I was thinking maybe if we all planned out roughly when each chapter would be in Ruth's timeline before hand and what key events would occur in that time period, then maybe we could go in a cycle of writing a chapter each. Another thing would be that it would be useful, once a chapter has been written, for everyone else to see it before it gets uploaded, just in case you reference something off-hand or don't mention something that would affect a chapter that someone else is writing. It also means that any accidental errors can be picked up on (because we are all HR geeks and do tend to remember tiny pieces of information that are meant as through-away comments on the show, and so if the writer misses out on one of those pieces of information, someone else will pick up on it.)

As for the third... well, I can't remember it any more, but please do give me some feedback on these ideas. Are they good? Do you have another idea? Doesn't matter if you think it's not any good, tell us anyway because it might be amazing