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MichaelOrton
Michael Orton

Sat

Aug 18
2001

17:15



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Breaking out of Game Fiction

Well, if you hate reading game related fiction, why do you read it?

I like game related fiction.

At this point I would have inserted a link to a site where some of my
favourite g.r.f. is posted, but I've forgotten the link and it was on a now
defunct disk.

However, I accept that g.r.f. is probably of interest to a very limited
audience.   The site I like is about a campaign I'm in.   The fiction is
written by other players.   I would say that there is nothing wrong with
this and if other folk like it then fine, but it was written for our own
pleasure.

If someone has an ability to write 30 pages a day of campaign related stuff
that might be all very well, but who is going to read it?   Most players in
my group don't want the GM to supply too much background materiel, they want
to do the relevant bits themselves - hence the stories.


If it is good stuff then maybe a wider audience can be found.   Maybe
non-players would like to read it?

Maybe the energy could be focused into something else, but my instinctive
reaction is that when I have a story in my fingers nothing else is going to
come out of them until the story is on file.   It may be a crap story, but
it has to be typed before I can focus on anything else.   If your story can
wait to come out then it's not really ripe in your mind yet.   Leave it on
the back burner and do something else.   Anything else!

Rgds,
Michael.

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