I wrote the short blog post "The Story Vacuum" in the simple, innocent time that was January of 2020, referring to the utter implosion of storytelling franchises in the English-speaking world. It was inspired by my having been "encouraged" to sit through about half an episode of...See more

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Writing community, in your various writing projects, how often do you come up with totally new ideas (for plots, characters, or settings) as a percentage of your total completed and active projects? That is, do you tend to re-use worlds, characters, and overarching plots repeatedly for series writing, or do you tend to write more stand-alone work, or somewhere in between? (Art by Alexander "Minze" Thümler.)

Writing community, what non-writing creative work have you put into your writing projects? For example, have you experimented with art for a cover or illustrations? Comic panels? What about rules to a board game or tabletop RPG? Do you intend these things to be part of the marketing of the written story, a tie-in product, or part of your process not intended for release? (Art by Leon Tukker.)

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Writing community, in your various writing projects, how often do you come up with totally new ideas (for plots, characters, or settings) as a percentage of your total completed and active projects? That is, do you tend to re-use worlds, characters, and overarching plots repeatedly for series writing, or do you tend to write more stand-alone work, or somewhere in between? (Art by Alexander "Minze" Thümler.)

Writing community, what non-writing creative work have you put into your writing projects? For example, have you experimented with art for a cover or illustrations? Comic panels? What about rules to a board game or tabletop RPG? Do you intend these things to be part of the marketing of the written story, a tie-in product, or part of your process not intended for release? (Art by Leon Tukker.)

"The Oracle of the Lost Warden" (Novel Excerpt)