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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heap Thaumaturgist" data-source="post: 236299" data-attributes="member: 4516">Well, I think you've already biased yourself against anything I'll say.  I'm not one of those "people" who cooked up an idea in a week.  I adapted an idea I'd been working on for almost two years.  I have alot of good information about a place I created and love.  I actually started dripping tears thinking about an especially sad aspect.  I -love- the place I built.But that said ... I just don't agree.  Creativity comes from within.  It's the ability to take everything around you, and give it back out a little different ... a little more interesting.  You may love something, but that something isn't a singular act of creativity ... "creativity" isn't a one-shot that you put down and then, poof, nothing anymore.I'd be tempted to say not to worry about it, but y'know, I don't know.  I've met Ed Greenwood.  Talked to him about FR, heard him talk about FR.  Sometimes, Ed seemed a little bitter ... he relinquished some control over  his game world and his writing.  Sometimes, it's aggravating.  I don't think he's unhappy, mind you, just feels bound in places.  So, yea, y'know ... I'm not going to say it'll all be shining happy roses and you're a raving lunatic.But it's 120K ... it's pretty obvious that writing isn't what you want to do for a living.  That's a living.  I can't really think of anything I'd rather do.  I love the act of creating ... I love working without bounds, I love working within bounds ... I love deadlines, even.  I was freaking out all week long coming to Thursday when I mailed it.  But it was grand.  It's energy, to me.  I'm normally a reserved, aimless person ... but when I'm writing, I'm different.  I'm passionate, energetic, driven.   I can't think of anywhere else that boundaries give me energy and joy.  Every other job weighs me down, dulls my thinking, and I spend all my time contemplating my next coffee break, watching for the weekends.I can love things and let them go, watch them change, watch them go somewhere I wasn't prepared for them to go.  I'll see it as an adventure.  I'll tip my hat, take my money, play my campaign the way I want it.  I'll write the novels within any constraints they have ... I'll write my own novels the way I want, though, as well.  About somewhere else.  Get a book deal with WotC and with another publisher.  Even if I never get another deal, even if WotC totally mangles my world and cuts me off from it in some wildly dramatic moment with a black hat and waxed moustache rubbing their hands together and cackling as they kill a creative thought I loved and nurtured to life ... 120K will pay for my college loans and allow me to make a living.  20 years from now I'll look back and raise a toast to that man in the black hat and funny moustache.Look at it this way ... some people are in a position where they'll sell their BODY for 50 or 150 dollars.  Some people sell their sweat and muscles for 35K a year.  Some people sell their minds and education for 60-70K a year.  If I can sell a single idea for 120K, I'm making out like a bandit.  --HT</blockquote>

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