Ever have an idea...

[Morreion]

...sitting around for a story from a game you haven't played in a long time?

I've got a couple of them. It's sort of bugging me. Do I remember enough about the game world to do a reasonable job? Should I try to change the story setting into something I'm playing now? Does it make any sense to write about characters that no one will remember- or that the players playing the characters will not read?

Do I have enough to worry about? Sheesh! You'd think I'd have enough to do finishing up the stuff I'm working on now

[Jaema]

It's something I ponder now and then too. The gaming worlds seem to inspire story writing but then I worry that the stories are not interesting to those who never played there, or are not still in that world. I go back and forth. Part of me wants to say write a good story and it doesn't matter if the reader ever 'lived' in that world too. Then again, there is that injunction about knowing your audience.

Authors who write sequels, I know, often take great pains to assert that the 2nd or 3rd book can stand on its own. And I think, that's a bit of what we're talking about here. Can our story stand on it's own without the crutch of a reader who also has a character in that world right then.

If you're simmering with a story, I say write it

[Morreion]

I'm going to try to do that!