Professional - So what's up with writing?
Sep. 12th, 2002 03:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
demiurgentGlad you asked. In and around being nastily ill and doing the whole start of school thing, I have gotten through some major writing. I've put together a nice passel (over 30,000 words) for Star Trek: The Role Playing Game. Some of that will have to be cut in redlines, but that's part of the fun. They're also sending me some additional materials to do another 4,400 words or so.
It's interesting, writing Trekstuff. It's such a huge part of pop-culture, after all. There is a tremendous stigma attached to being a Star Trek fan (Trekkies, Trekkers, whatever we are this week), but at the same time Trek is known. My sister knows who Captain Kirk, Mister Spock and Doctor McCoy are. My mother knows that Patrick Stewart was the captain on The Next Generation. It's a part of American Culture in a very real and pervasive way.
When I wrote on Sidewinder, my father was excited because he had read Bat Masterson's writing as a boy. This was familiar to him. He knew Western tropes. And that was amazingly cool. Now? I can say I've been writing about Khan, and everyone knows what I'm talking about.
Astounding.
Now, I'm plugging away at some Nobilis tastiness. It's not as long a project, and it doesn't (yet) have the cultural significance of the American West or Starfleet Command, but it stretches my mind and sense of imagination into directions the other projects don't begin to touch.
I am a very lucky man. As I've said before, I write. For money. This is a tremendous blessing.
(Now, if I could just write for enough money that I could drop the school thing...)
It's interesting, writing Trekstuff. It's such a huge part of pop-culture, after all. There is a tremendous stigma attached to being a Star Trek fan (Trekkies, Trekkers, whatever we are this week), but at the same time Trek is known. My sister knows who Captain Kirk, Mister Spock and Doctor McCoy are. My mother knows that Patrick Stewart was the captain on The Next Generation. It's a part of American Culture in a very real and pervasive way.
When I wrote on Sidewinder, my father was excited because he had read Bat Masterson's writing as a boy. This was familiar to him. He knew Western tropes. And that was amazingly cool. Now? I can say I've been writing about Khan, and everyone knows what I'm talking about.
Astounding.
Now, I'm plugging away at some Nobilis tastiness. It's not as long a project, and it doesn't (yet) have the cultural significance of the American West or Starfleet Command, but it stretches my mind and sense of imagination into directions the other projects don't begin to touch.
I am a very lucky man. As I've said before, I write. For money. This is a tremendous blessing.
(Now, if I could just write for enough money that I could drop the school thing...)
