Hey everyone!
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I decided it's better than starting a new thread somewhere else...
I have a question/proposal to put to all you Second Apocalypsers: Is anyone interested in collaborating with me on some world-building stuff? I have in mind, in particular, map-making -- not only large-scale, but also (perhaps especially) small-scale stuff, like cities and particular areas in which certain events might take place (e.g., battles). I'd really appreciate help with this sort of thing.
( My 'inner lawyer' insists that I mention right off the bat that what I have in mind would entail that I, Roger Eichorn, retain ownership of the intellectual property rights to anything that we come up with. Basically, I'm asking if you want to work for me for free... )
Here's the background, vis-a-vis me and my project: I'm making a fresh start on Three Roses, and writing in general. My decade-long 'Going To School' project has finally landed me in a place where I have room to reincorporate fiction-writing into my life in a major way. I've decided that all the work I've done on TR since starting graduate school (i.e., everything I've done on the "new" draft... -- never mind, there's a long, boring compositional history behind TR, I won't get into it) -- anyway, I've decided it's all sub-par material. I can do better. The problem has been that graduate school has, until now, taken up too much of my mental, emotional, and creative energies. With some of that burden now lifted, I feel like a 'new man' working on TR.
I'm ready to kick ass.
So do you want to help me? I mentioned map-making. The sorry fact of the matter is that (a) I have a very 'visual' writing imagination,
not in the sense that I'm easily able to visualize what I'm writing about, but in the sense that I'm very inspired and driven by visual materials, such as maps; and (b) I have neither the affinity nor the interest in actually
creating such visual materials myself. I want to find them already-made for me. As long as what's done is consonant with certain specific facts I've already laid out, then I'm open to pretty much whatever when it comes to this sort of thing.
An example might help. As part of an attempt to 'go back to my roots' as a fantasy writer, I've begun listening to the audiobooks of Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Since I'm not re-reading the books themselves, I don't have any of Jordan's maps handy. I went looking online, and found a whole bunch, many of which are fan-made. Immediately, I thought, "Wow, I'd love to have something like this for
my world!" Hence this post.
Here's a link to a photo:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zF5vHyezU8k/UDCwfRbnR3I/AAAAAAAAF2I/glNLlVxFEgo/s1600/Tear.jpg(I hope it works. I got the link of Google Images.) The photo looks really good, I think. I don't know if this one in particular is fan-made or if someone scanned it from somewhere. I think it's fan-made. I don't know. Anyway, stuff like this would be amazing to have for TR -- obviously.
Also, if anyone else has any ideas of what they might like to work with me on (besides map-making), I'd love to hear them. In this day and age, I don't see why world-building can't benefit from some sort of 'crowd-sourcing.' Right?
On the other hand, if this whole request is ludicrously presumptuous, I apologize. Just ignore it, then!
- Rog
