MUP Ep 362- Ten Things to Remember When Publishing on the Miskatonic Repository

This episode, Keepers Bridgett and Evan discuss ten things to remember when publishing on the Miskatonic Repository!

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Main Topic 

Hello, and welcome everyone to the main topic! Tonight, we discuss Ten Things to Remember When Publishing on the Miskatonic Repository. 

Evan’s 5

• Write for you
  • Write what you like. If you don’t like it, you absolutely are not getting paid enough to do it.
• Have an elevator pitch
  • Before you get deep into writing, you should be able to say in 1 or 2 sentences, of moderate length, what is most exciting to you about your product (scenario, source book, resource, art too!). This is what will excite others
• You can build off other peoples’ work
  • One thing we can take from the example of Lovecraft and the early weird fiction writers is that they all collaborated all the time. You can co-write with people, you can build off an idea or a setting or a creature or a spell found in someone else’s work, you can create a Shared Universe. It’s polite to be in touch if you’re using someone’s material, but it’s absolutely OK to do a