I’ve been thinking about writing a novel set in Cimmeria for a while. I’ve always wanted to write something set in the campaign world, but it took me a while to land on the idea. The basics is to cover the story of Blendegad, Galandir, and Tereman that I outlined in the First Vampire of Cimmeria series. After writing that series I knew I had my novel’s concept.
Why write a novel? Well, I like writing. The blog is big evidence of that. I’ve written over half a million words of content since the blog started. If all that writing was novels instead of blog posts I’d have 4 or 5 books done at this point. When I’m feeling sad, crumby, or angry, writing helps me feel good again. One of my life goals is to write some significant piece of fiction and get it published, even if it’s just a few copies for my friends and family. Lots of emotional goals that writing fulfills. I’d say writing a book of some kind is something I’ve wanted to do since high school.
There’s also a business perspective to my writing. I’ve been slowly working towards publishing Cimmeria as a campaign setting. And it’d be cool if publishing was actually successful instead of just a friends and family announcement. What’s the best way to make something successful? INTEGRATED MARKETING!
Gotta get that campaign setting present in other media. A campaign setting, a novel, an adventure series, and a custom Magic the Gathering set. All the weak attention that’s given to each release will add together into a snowball of attention.
Of course, that means more initial work so that I can release all of them close together in time. Or a massively increased work ethic so that I complete stuff a lot faster. I’m mostly doing this for fun though, so this is all just a theoretical media strategy that I’ve made up for fun as well.
Back to the actual writing of the novel! I’ll plan on writing it on the blog here. Maybe even do National Novel Writing Month this year! I’m not sure the whole First Vampire story fits in a single novel, but that’s the story I want to tell. Maybe it’ll get split up. I’ve got to write it first to find out.
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