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LordAnki
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 Posted - 04 Apr 2005 : 00:25:21
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I am working on a short story saga which I would love to get published and I was wondering if I am allowed to create custom locations like a druid grove, or custom villages not marked on the Faerun maps. Thanks.
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Thomas M. Reid
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
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Posted - 04 Apr 2005 : 15:24:11
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Originally posted by LordAnki
I am working on a short story saga which I would love to get published and I was wondering if I am allowed to create custom locations like a druid grove, or custom villages not marked on the Faerun maps. Thanks.
The short answer is, sure. FR writers develop new localized places all the time.
However, be aware that there are really only two ways you can get your FR work published; one is through WotC, of course, and the other would be Dragon Magazine. Wizards doesn't as a rule publish unsolicited material. Almost all of their fiction is contracted beforehand, though they will consider potential new authors based on unsolicited submissions (but if they see talent and potential, they'll most likely ask you to write something else rather than publish the story you submitted).
Dragon, on the other hand, might be interested in your FR short story. You can write the piece and then submit it whole to the editors, but I'd suggest you contact them first and ask for their submission guidelines and also provide them with a synopsis of the piece to see if it fits their current needs -- they may have just done a story that's too similar in some way to your work and won't be interested right now.
Lastly, if you're just writing the story for the love of writing (which is the real point, after all), you can include whatever the heck you want in it. The Realms is a living, dynamic place, and every designer and author who works on it contributes to that growth by adding bits and pieces where nothing existed before. So go to town! 
Thomas |
"A knight is not truly virtuous, only truly resolved to be so."
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Apr 2005 : 17:44:30
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| I forgot to mention that some of us scribes, on this site, are writing unofficial tales for a pdf. I haven't had a chance to sit down and work on mine yet since I have 3 projects going plus other stuff going on but I do have an idea for a story. :) |
For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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LordAnki
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Posted - 04 Apr 2005 : 19:30:06
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| Thank you Mr. Reid. Yeah I wouldn't mind writing a new story for WoTC. Thanks for your help as well Kuje. Your help is greatly appreciated. I'm glad to got an answer from one of the authors. |
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