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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friadoc" data-source="post: 4574295" data-attributes="member: 5445">Since I can, as it is my own freelance career that I will refer to in such a manner, I will let you in on my secret, it is called the shotgun effect. Basically, when the desire hits me, I blast away at ideas, good and bad, and see what sticks, by sticks I mean what a publisher decides that they like.As an example, with my first credit, the Tear of Mormo in Relics & Rituals, I submitted about, twenty things, give or take, and only the artifact was selected. It earned me about eight bucks, but it was published, textually and mechanically, exactly as I had submitted it. Plus, it got a half page of unique art, something that has not happened for me, to my knowledge, since.My next credit is in Bastion Press (now DragonWing, I think), in Torn Asunder, where I had about six items, out of about three dozen, published. Now, to be honest, I would have to look again to remember which ones, as it has been a few years. Again, the paycheck was not anything awesome, most my freelance stuff, thus far, as been more emotional paychecks than fiscally sound ones.Lastly, Ronin Arts has the credit of putting my name on the cover of a product, in which I was the only designer, which was Athenaeum Arcane: Esoteric Libraries. I am fairly certain I made the most, to date, off of this product, since it was a residuals sharing one, and I am fairly sure I bought an extra copy of Arcana Evolved with the money from this, so that I could share it with one of the folk at my table.Now I have done some free work since then, over at Delver's Square, when I was more active there, but over half of the stuff that I have submitted to publishers, well over half, has never seen the light of day and was round filed. So, thus, don't knock yourself.Honestly, it does not have to be solid or a masterpiece, it just has to be what a publisher wants to see and trying is half of the learning, I know it was for me. Up until the d20 surge, with the release of 3e, I never sent anything to Dragon or Dungeon, out of fear, and odds are I shouldn't have avoided it, since I would most likely be further ahead now, than I am. So, my advice, take a shot at it, goodness knows I enjoy your games, your writing, and I have fun, which is an important chunk of what folks like about writers. <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=";)" /></blockquote>

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