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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eosin the Red" data-source="post: 1567410" data-attributes="member: 168">I have some initial reports back from the draft of Ringmasters and many rough lessons were learned there in. Lessons:1.    On free stuff start out with a clear and simple objective – in this I failed. I just started writing and let the adventure take me where it would.2.    Keep a well-organized draft section. I lost 5-7 pages in one fell swoop because I was not properly organized.3.    Make sure that your project dovetails into the setting and line in theme and style – another major failure on my part.4.    Figure out how long it will take you to do it – add a month for all the editing and proofing and then double it.I am going to have to do a bit of surgery on the module. It does not fit well with the rest of the setting as pointed out by an astute reader. I can’t believe that I did not catch it sooner. There is good news – everybody has responded very favorably to the rough draft. The gent who told me it did not fit the Last Dominion suggested that I sell it to Dungeon – I guess that is both good and bad.Time, time, time, now I know why companies can predict something is coming out in December – because they already have the rough draft finished. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> When I was just doing website stuff it was easy to write and post stuff then edit on the fly as needed but a published product deservers more than that kind of hap-hazard scrutiny.The real kicker here is that I have spent a week or so working on the project and it will do nothing to advance the setting or the product line. If I release it – it may set up false expectations of what the company style will be like for our paying customers leading to disappointment when the styles are different. What does all of this mean? It means one heck of a lot of effort for something that will not see any return for 3P while we have mounting costs associated with art and support. It means I made a pretty major faux pas resulting in the squandering of 3P’s most valuable resource – my time. Now to see if I can turn lemons into lemonade.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />I will see if I can get to the question on setting bibles here this evening or tomorrow.Randy</blockquote>

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