quodo | Quodo in Every Episode: format changes and pre-season 1 break week

Hi everyone! Thank you for giving me some feedback on the previous post. In light of the comments, I will be making several major changes to the way this Quodo in Every Episode event is run:

1. I will be switching the episode discussions over to chronological/broadcast order rather than random order.

2. I will insert several breaks between episode discussions to give people time that they can fully dedicate to writing fics rather than keeping on top of episode discussion. (Breaks can also be used to catch up on the episode discussions if you've fallen behind.)

3. Also, between seasons, I will also insert a break week where you can not only do writing/catch-up as above, but also sign up to get a random selection of currently-ficless DS9 episodes (either ones that have been discussed in the past or ones that are from the coming season) and the aim is for you to try to fill however many of them you want before the next season break.

There are two options for the writing challenges:

- A backward-facing option where you get a random selection of episodes already discussed that don't have any Quodo fics for them.

- A forward-facing option where you get a random selection of episodes from the upcoming season that I believe don't have any Quodo fics for them, and your objective is to focus on those episodes for a Quodo fic.

At any of the mid-season breaks, you can also reroll your episode set if you find they aren't working for you, or if you finish a fic for them and want other options. And then you can request a new set during each between-season break, before the next season starts up.

I have updated the Info and Rules post to contain these format changes.

So the linear-order episode discussions will start next week. In the meantime, consider this the between-season break week leading into season 1.

In this case, because we're at the beginning of the show and haven't discussed any episodes yet, the backward-facing challenge will give you 3 random episodes of the previously-discussed 47 random episodes that don't have Quodo fics for them yet, and your goal is to do something for one of them before the next between-season break. (In future between-season breaks, the backward-facing option will only give you episodes from seasons already discussed, so the pre-season 2 break will select from season 1 episodes only; the pre-season 3 break will select episodes from season 1 and 2, etc.)

The forward-facing challenge will give you 3 random season 1 episodes that I think don't have Quodo fics yet and your goal is to do something with them. (In both the backward and forward-looking cases, it is a possibility I might give you an episode that turns out to actually have Quodo fics written for it -- I'll try to avoid this, but it's hard to find fics sometimes, especially when they're not tagged with the specific episode tag.)

You can sign up for one or both of the challenges if you like. To sign up, just leave a comment saying which challenge(s) you'd like to sign up for and I'll reply with your set of episodes.