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<blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 1420400" data-attributes="member: 94"><p>Ok, ok. But I think "fantasy fiction" is an awfully wide spectrum, into which many SH's can easily find a place, despite their focus on "action." I've previously staked out a portion of that spectrum. (I might also mention comic books here-- though they are a visual representation, rather than literary, they are stories that focus very heavily on action and don't suffer for it.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think this alone is going to force certain decisions. In my own mind, at least, I've never been convinced that anything we might do should compete against novels, or fantasy fiction, or necessarily appeal to non-gamers. (Though I think some of the stories here could do so, it wouldn't be my line of attack.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, yessssss... but there are an awful lot of alternatives, not just books. Even assuming we're targeting the right folks-- our fellow gamers-- we have an awful lot of alternatives on our Palette of Geeky Goodness. I can't worry about alternatives-- which is not to say that I would want to have anything to do with sub-par work.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The text I receive should be free of spelling mistakes and major grammatical errors. I can read a piece of text once and scour it clean of enough remaining errors that it will, even at that point, be at a higher level of quality and professionalism than many RPG publications.</p><p></p><p>And then I'd have at least one more pair of eyes look at it. </p><p></p><p>I might suggest, if we move with an Anthology of some sort, that every author is responsible for reading and editing the work of at least one of his colleagues.</p><p></p><p>I might further suggest that <em>every</em> author read the work of every other-- but I don't want to talk crazy or nothin'. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The "neato" factor is pretty high in my book, too!</p><p></p><p>Wulf</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wulf Ratbane, post: 1420400, member: 94"] Ok, ok. But I think "fantasy fiction" is an awfully wide spectrum, into which many SH's can easily find a place, despite their focus on "action." I've previously staked out a portion of that spectrum. (I might also mention comic books here-- though they are a visual representation, rather than literary, they are stories that focus very heavily on action and don't suffer for it.) I think this alone is going to force certain decisions. In my own mind, at least, I've never been convinced that anything we might do should compete against novels, or fantasy fiction, or necessarily appeal to non-gamers. (Though I think some of the stories here could do so, it wouldn't be my line of attack.) Well, yessssss... but there are an awful lot of alternatives, not just books. Even assuming we're targeting the right folks-- our fellow gamers-- we have an awful lot of alternatives on our Palette of Geeky Goodness. I can't worry about alternatives-- which is not to say that I would want to have anything to do with sub-par work. The text I receive should be free of spelling mistakes and major grammatical errors. I can read a piece of text once and scour it clean of enough remaining errors that it will, even at that point, be at a higher level of quality and professionalism than many RPG publications. And then I'd have at least one more pair of eyes look at it. I might suggest, if we move with an Anthology of some sort, that every author is responsible for reading and editing the work of at least one of his colleagues. I might further suggest that [i]every[/i] author read the work of every other-- but I don't want to talk crazy or nothin'. The "neato" factor is pretty high in my book, too! Wulf [/QUOTE]
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