Traveller's Tales

The new faces are at http://www.absolutewrite.com/ – an excellent writer’s resource/community I’ve somehow managed to miss entirely for years now, apparently. I’ve been a part of several communities over the years — misc.writing, for one, and Ravenscar Nights for another — but the web communities that popped up after m.w became unreadable and RN died off just didn’t seem to capture the mood I was looking for. Regardless, AW seems like a lovely place to hang your hat if you’re a writer of any stripe, so I’m going to hang there a bit. If you do the writing thing too, give it a go.

The new challenges are in this new media crap. I’ve got some great stuff to deliver storywise for the marketing push, but the trick is distribution — not just specifically distribution, but the actual path people will take between chunks of media — yes, it’s going to be what I call a ‘mongrel media’ production — it’s lots of chunks of various media instead of one consistent experience. Long story short, it’s really a lot more complex than I thought it was, and I thought it was complex. Right now it’s doing my head in. I’ll get through it, but the infinite variables are still throwing me for a loop, so I need to compartmentalize better and narrow each step down to its component parts. Big pictures are scary, you know?

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