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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kaleon Moonshae" data-source="post: 1590306" data-attributes="member: 12147">trade secrets?Not sure if it would be trade secrets, if it were, that would be a bit picky of WoTC, course that might be the case. I know I have read posts by Stan! on what the outlines he was given for writing the clan novels were like. It was very interesting to see how a successful publishing company outlines things to help their creators stay focused. Not really looking for word for word copy, just ideas, ala general headings and stuff. If you notice, most WoTC books share the same basic structure, which is the same basic structure as most other rpg books, so I figure it is a tried and true model that you learn in publishing school, but since I have never had classes in actual publishing I was curious for a bit of information on it. You can glean a lot by just studying the end product, just thought a lot of people would be interested in hearing it from the horse's mouth, or maybe cow in this case? (so to speak, not trying to suggest anything bout hellcow<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). We are all fired up about this book and it would be interesting to hear about the creative process he went through.Thanks everyoneJust my two cents[edit] just to be a bit more clear, am sleepy, I wasn't looking for hellcow's answers to the outline but the structure of the outline itself that he was given. i.e. "In this 4th chapter we would like you to expound on x y and z, be sure to focus on aspects a b and c and don't forget to do d f and g so you are sure to keep the reader's interest."</blockquote>

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