Proposal: A rimworld novel

[Quasarrgames]

Ok, this is a late-night idea, so i'm not certain how good it will be, but here it goes...

I've seen a lot of really good stories here. It's clear that you have some good writing talent. And rimworld is such an excellent platform for character and story development.

So my proposal is that we all make a book that contains short stories about our colonies. We could each write one or two, with a lot of effort put into them, and put them all together. And maybe, if everyone's okay with it, we could throw it at some publishing companies and see if anyone would go for it.

What do you think? Midnight drowse post or legitimately good idea?

[Fuhman]

> Implying any publisher would take it seriously.

The quality of the writing here is enthusiastic but never outstanding, never even close to a publishing standard. The stories are just a creative output for the players as this game allows the imagination to fill in many blanks and tell a story of the colony.
If you wanted to, you could receive submissions, proof-read them and re-write them to a good standard and compile them for other users to the forum?

[nightblue]

From my understanding, many fantasy novels came out of DnD campaigns - say Dragonlance.  In the same vein I wouldn't be too surprised to see some fan stories from this game or similar ones inspire something bigger, even though likely they'd grow out of the fan-fic territory.

[Argon]

I would try, if I weren't already writing an original science fiction novel.

-Argon

[geredis]

I'd definitely be interested in working out something like this.  Quasarrgames, feel free to PM me; we can discuss details to has out some sort of basic...something or other.  Even if it doesn't come out as something to be published, there'll be an interesting story and/or basis for a community anthology in the future.

[blaze7736]

Yer this is a great idea

[PotatoeTater]

I think it could work.

[Fuhman]

If you can compile ten of outstanding quality between 3-5k words, then you're talking. You'll still need to compile about thirty for a novel though

[blaze7736]

okay well lets set up a Google doc where all who are interested can work on the story's

[Fuhman]

I'm skeptical but I'd give it a shot.

[Capitanos]

Hay Guys!

That sound like a good idea. We can give it a try. I dont know if i have the time to write a short story, but maybe i can.
But i wont write on english but on german. Is this cool for you?