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Old March 18th, 2013, 11:54 AM
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Re: The wait is Over HS Codex #11 is Here!

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It's a matter of organization... We tried to do this at the french forum: not enought organization, project abandoned.

You need a lot of people to help you, and as DS said, take your time to finalize each article.
Yes, precisely.

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A good idea should be to give it another name than Codex, for exemple, "Valhalla News", "The DailyScape" ...
I guess, but ... what's going to be in it?

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Okay, so basically:

1) Take your time, don't rush it.
It may be your ultimate goal is to resurrect the Codex under its own name. That's fine, and laudable, and I don't want to discourage you. It would be a long process, and would be the product of many people working together.

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2) Find another name.
No, that's not what I was saying. If your long term goal is to bring the Codex back under that name, fine.

But for *now*, as you are really just at the very beginning of thinking about laying the groundwork for that lofty goal, I'm going to humbly suggest you adopt a more moderate short term goal.

Specifically, you say you want to be involved. I'm assuming that means as a writer, and you want to be a writer than the very best thing you can do is write. Make it regular, and make it interesting both to you and to your audience.

Fiction? Write Bios.

Humor? How about a little Q&A with the Ogre Pulverizer?

Critical? Dig out some of the official literature of the game and assemble it into pictures of how the Marro might reproduce or something, basing your argument on things you might learn from official bios or whatever.

Strategy? If you've got the chops, go for it.

The most important thing is to make sure it is *interesting*. Not just for your audience, but for you, because if it's a chore you will likely lose interest.

Do it once, do it again, do it again. See how you like it. There are a few good writers doing fan fiction on this site; swap stories with them, if fiction is your thing (apologies if you're doing that already, I didn't look).

If you're doing something repetitive (Once every two weeks a new set of high quality photos, or once a month a new humorous short story about Eldgrim's adventures in Valhalla, or whatever), give it a name that will be completely your own. You will come up with a name for yourself (The War Journals of Eldgrim the Tall).

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3) Find someone who is better/smarter/more experienced than me.
Nope. Never said that. I'm just saying you'll need a lot of people, as Daniel Loche said, and everybody will have a particular role. I wouldn't presume to guess what your role might be, one day.

Why don't you think about what you would *like* your role to be, though, and work on it as part of Phase 1. Where I'm suggesting you write, but you can/should work on art, if you'd rather, or whatever.

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4) This one is questionable, and I would like to hear from D_S especially on this one. Even if we're changing the name, would it still be a good idea to ask a 'higher up" if we can start this project?
If you're writing the serialized War Journals of Eldgrim the Tall then I don't think you have to ask anybody anything. If you enjoy it and you think you might be building a following then have some talks with other writers and an artist or two. But first you have to establish that you're comfortable doing the part you think you want to do.

One of the great dramatists of them all, Stephen Sondheim, reminded us of this important fact of life in his brilliant Into the Woods:

Wishes come true, not free.

You know what you want to wish for. Now spend some time doing a little bridge building and soul searching by creating just one small part of it, and see how that goes.
Somehow, that was really inspiring...
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