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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sagiro" data-source="post: 1420319" data-attributes="member: 726">Based on what I've read, I would stand by a claim that a vast majority of Story Hours have a significantly higher percentage of battle-description per page, or at least a higher number of battles per page, than a vast majority of published fantasy fiction.I accept your premise, though, that we're not talking about novels, but about a new genre of gaming-table stories.   And because of that, most of the comments from my previous post become sort of moot, as long as readers have the right set of expectations going in.There's still the matter of editorial quality, of course.  On the one hand, if we're talking an honest-to-goodness paperback that someone's going to sit down and spend several hours reading, it's going to be competing with professionally-edited novels, at least for anyone who doesn't have unlimited time to read.  As such, these gaming-table stories should be able to hold their own against a reader's alternatives.On the other hand (and I admit I'm just guessing here), most Story Hour writers probably don't spend lots of time editing their work.  I mean, I'll read mine through a few times for typos and misspellings before I post, but it's not like I have a professional editor warning about my overuse of commas, or my grating repetition of certain words, or my dangling participles.Wulf, you said earlier in this thread that you expect each author to give his or her own work at least one editing pass before handing it over.  Will that be enough?  Maybe for Sepulchrave and jonrog, but not for me, that's for sure.  How much editing and consulting are you prepared to do at your end?Anyway, just so you don't think I'm only being negative here, there are some stories on this board that I'd pay $8 for right now, as posted, just to have a hard-copy that I could read more at my leisure.  And I'm still overall positive on the idea, even if just from a "cool vanity press" point of view.-Sagiro</blockquote>

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