Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
The past two weeks have been very busy. Taking a break from the Vehm script to do a quick speculative animation project got the first draft of the Vehm script done late, and finishing the Vehm script late got me a late start on my contribution to Realms of Sorcery. I agreed to write on RoS in a moment of weakness at GenCon SoCal because I love Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, am dying to see it succeed in its new Green Ronin designed release, and really wanted to contribute to the line. So, that's what I've been writing instead of geniac snippets for jefftidball.com for the last two weeks.
Although my assignment for RoS wasn't all that big, working it in around the demands of day job and commute was difficult. Although I'm not entirely done with it yet, I'm glad to report that sanity has (largely) returned, I'll be back to script work instead of game work very soon, and my writing schedule will be much more manageable going forward. I've decided, though, that this is the last game writing I'm going to do for a year or so. (Barring Tomo's collapse, and except for a small contribution I've already promised to another book, and except for contributions to Games Quarterly Magazine.) If this screenwriting business is ever going to take off for me it needs all my attention, and now's the time. Which isn't to say I've been ignoring it these past three years since my USC graduation, but now's the time for it to get all my writing attention. So that's the plan.
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I was personally thrilled to hear you agreed to take on a bit of RoS. And sad that most of our best writers have taken projects with us their swan songs as they leave the biz or take a break from the biz (or, in reality, realize they could be spending their time on more rewarding things than roleplaying game writing). Happy for you, since you have better things to be doing and the talent to be doing them, but sorry for myself because I'm increasingly left with a pack of braying jackasses who can't meet a deadline or follow an approved outline let alone hit word count, even for cash money.