Let me preface this by saying I hate writing interest checks… [hr] 18+ advanced writers. Communicate - If you don’t like something, or you have an idea for where to go with something let me know. That way I don’t step all over your plotline or drive us off a cliff. Innovate - I need a partner, which means I need someone who is comfortable generating plot. Accept setbacks - Good stories are about triumphing over adversity. Bad things happen. I don’t usually outline plots in advance, that way we can grow them together. [hr] [b]Settings:[/b] [list] [*] Urban Fantasy - What goes bump in the night? Us? [*] Fading Suns - It’s a space fantasy! [*] Sci-fi - Something picaresque in space. [*]Something else… Something mysterious… Xenoarcheology? No one knows. [*]Pulp - Its 1920 somethings. There are hard boiled PI's, crazy cults, globe trotting adventurers, the mysterious east and above all there are guns, fist fights and dames with legs that just wont quit. Also there are probably Zeppelins, just figured I should mention that. [/list] [hider=Specific Sci-Fi ideas] Anabasis - Thats right based on the famous story we all know and love by Xenephon but in SPAAAAACE. For the tiny minority who aren't familiar with Anabasis, an army of Greek Mercenaries is stranded in Asia Minor after the death of their paymaster and have to fight their way home. The Lost Fleet is an obvious sci fi riff on this story. Shipwreck - Passengers on vessel which crashes/is sabotaged by pirates on a primitive world. Deal with locals, escape pirates, try to survive the hostile environment. In The Navy - Peacetime in the Navy isn’t all its cracked up to be. You won’t have to fight any fleet actions (or will you…) but you will need to suppress pirates, rescue VIPs from coups, and foil plots from local potentates, all on a shoestring budget at the ragged end of lines of supply and command. Making Ends Meet - We all got our skills serving the Imperium, maybe the marines, or the navy, maybe the army or some spooky organisation we don't talk about, but wars end, people get discharged, for injury or discipline, drink or dereliction. But those skills don't just go away, and people need things, things only people with skills can do. Plus the rent is due. [/hider]