Maldin
First Post
And thats exactly why I have a website (link in my .sig) containing almost 60 web-articles of material (some are quite lengthy webpages, with lots of original graphics). I like to think its a fairly well-received site. However, having been published several times, like Shemy, I can say that the two are very different kettles of fish. Different types of material (topic, editing, layout, graphics), different size and type of audience, different level of recognition and appreciation from those audiences (rightly or wrongly; whether or not it makes a difference to the writer/creator, but it is nice to get positive feedback once in a while), and of course the different rewards (monetary and/or that only rarely expressed feedback) translate to different levels and types of effort expended.
Whats more, WotC is never going to email somebody out of the blue and say "Gee, we really like the stuff on your website. How's about writing the new Greyhawk Campaign Sourcebook for us?" Doesn't matter that there are a bunch of unpublished fans out there that could do a far better job of some things than what the inhouse writers have done in the past. *
Well, they haven't called me yet, anyways.
*Note: But in the past, WotC HAS gotten people that had a shot at some early writing creds and then asked them to do something as big as a campaign setting book because they were an acknowledged expert on the net for that setting... now that fellow is the Publisher for Paizo because of his intro-path into the biz.
I can't see that ever happening again with their current mentality.Denis, aka "Maldin"
Maldin's Greyhawk http://melkot.com
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