EH Writers Guidelines

We have the beginnings of a bandwagon, here. Jump on it!
-- Shane Ivey

Shane Ivey
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1998 11:48:34 EST
Subject: DG: Emerald Hammer Recruiting

I wanna second MiB's call to arms: this Emerald Hammer thing is looking interesting, but we need more writers. You're all sharp Keepers with a keen appreciation for the Mythos and conspiracies and horror--after hanging out on this list, how could you not be?--so look over the list of proposed scenario locales and decide which one you know a little about. Then look over the plot outlines and notes (those need to be compiled and edited into a coherent document, by the way) and contribute.

My working estimate is about 5,000 words per scenario, tops: that's about a page for cultural and geographic notes, a page for background and procedures on local police/government and the terrorists/Karotechia pawns involved, and about eight pages for hard-hitting action and horrific description and characters. Those are REALLY ROUGH guidelines, and solely my own invention, but they should illustrate that we're not talking about a huge project from any one writer. (Even if you're masochistic and you volunteer to do two chapters, like me!)

ALTERNATIVELY, if you have a pretty good in-depth knowledge of one of the proposed locales, volunteer to help with the background research and fact- checking! Write up a couple of pages of good, useful background and send it, then just be available for double-checking from another writer who's handling the plotting and actual scenario work. For instance, if someone on the list knows Kiev and the Ukraine pretty well (either personally or from past research), you could do the background there, and I could put together the storyline, and we could compare notes to make sure it all fits just right.

We have the beginnings of a bandwagon, here. Jump on it!

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