Moving Along

Well, I am getting things done. Exterior of the house has been repainted, new front door installed, you know, things that are important but that don't really get a business up and running. Despite having a handy laptop that I use quite a bit, I still write out a lot of ideas in notebooks and/or edit on paper. It makes it easier to work outside in the wonderful weather while keeping an eye on the kids. This means I have quite a bit of material that I need to actually type into the computer. I might get time to do a bit of that tomorrow, but the kids have the day off from school so I am guessing we'll be filling some of that time with other activities.

I have had a few submissions and some questions for my open call. I updated the open call page (http://www.genericuniverse.com/opencall.html) with some questions/answers and a comment. Of the two more completed submissions I have so far one guy is a good writer and certainly has some ideas and material that I want. I have already corresponded with him several times and he is already adjusting things for me. The other one is from someone new to writing (at least for RPGs). He sent something that falls into a "new" genre apparently called "Horror-Porn." Wow, really, really NOT my thing. Not sure who decided to combine Horror and Porn, but, well, I just don't see how this would be part of any type of RPG that people would sit around a table and actually play. It was well-written though (at least what I read), just not something I would be interested in publishing. I told the author that the writing is good and I am interested in seeing something else (PG13), but that the material he sent isn't something I can publish. We'll see how he responds.

I have now upped the Open Call announcements to include several message boards. Before it was pretty much the people that came by the website and/or noticed the small line in the announcement(s) I posted. I also got some nice word-of-mouth on the Open Call from Vicki Potter who told some of the writers she has worked with and Bret Boyd who pointed to it from his Blog. The questions I have received show that several more people are at least considering creating a submission.

I will probably post announcements looking for artists fairly soon but I know I won't have time to look at portfolios until late next week so I see no need to do that now.

Okay, back to work.