Youngster. :-). I was writing Ars Magica back in '90. Why in my day, we had to hand-crush our own inks, make our own vellum, and send boxes of pages of text off to White Wolf, instead of a diskette.
> However, a whole book? Well, there is forty years worth of writing on
> Glorantha, and while I have no seen all the official HW/HQ material and
> posess I think all the official RQ2/3 material concerning Glorantha, I am
> still in the process of reading and learning from the Pre-Finished Works,
> (I've seen most of them I think now), and when I see the level of
Gloranthan
> scholarship on this list, and on Glorantha list, I usually feel quite
> ignorant. I also suspectthere may be more Gloranthan lore I am just not
> privy to, published in formats I may be unaware of?
It certainly doesn't have to be a whole book - I don't think any Heroquest product has been a 1-man show (Some Hero*Wars* products were). Collaboration is the name of the game, baby. You do tend to get access to unpublished material, especially if you're nice to Greg :-).
> I'd love to write for the line, and am used to working to deadlines, and
> have good reviews for my rpg writing to date, and yet so far have felt so
> intimidated by my relative lack of knowledge I have not even considered
fan
> publications like zines. Surely this is the real problem with writing for
> Glorantha?
Here's a secret, just between us - writers make it up all the time! Shh, don't tell anyone. That's right, all that detail, all those one-off rferences to things that happened in the past - all made up, quite often by not-Greg. True, you might find that you've over-written some piece of esoterica that was written about in Sorcerer's Scroll #11 back in '84, but so what? Different story from siumialr people, same story from different people, all is truth.
> Incidentally, a few years ago I did click on the "Write for Glorantha"
link
> on the webpage, and fired off an e-mail volunteering to work on ANY
project
> which would take me as a collaborator, or write a pitch, but I never had a
> response. I shrugged, and concentrated on other lines, as I was not sure I
> had the requisite Gloranthan lore to provide a good book at that time.
Try writing Mark, and instead of "OI want to work with whoever will have me" try "I'd like to write about XYZ." If there is already a book on XYZ, he might put you in touch with the authors, if not, he might say "Start writing".
> Still, I'm still interested in writing to support HQ, or Questworlds, but
I
> can't find any way to even apply to assist the Questworlds project? Is
> Questworlds Issaries now, or Reaching Moon - that is who will ultimately
> publish it?
Dunno. Greg? Rick?
> Anyway if anyone is at all interested, I have some spare time and would be
> happy to try. I think some concrete suggestions about how to pitch, who
to,
> and what is expected of authors might do much to provide a fresh influx of
> writers, but if the market demand is not there, well I suppose things will
> stay slow. I'm not going to moan about lack of new material, but I'd love
> to see more, even if I have to write it. :)
Good attitude.
RR
C'est par mon ordre et pour le bien de l'Etat que le porteur du pr�sent a
fait ce qu'il a fait.
- Richelieu
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