The backyard of [horror] ebook fury....

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What the hell? Seriously.

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This is a more private forum. Only the Strolenati can get into this "The Book" area. Twenty something of the regulars that we can discuss freely among.

I need help. No illusions about the thought that I can do this on my own.
Not the, hey I got an idea or here is some links type help but some "NO SHIT, I GOT THIS SON" type of help.

We had a lot of talk with the RPT merge that is on hold. And that is an indefinite hold. Johnn is a great motivator with ideas he is willing to take action on. We have the vision. We know what we want and where we want to go. Let's do it our damn selves! If we can do this right and take it serious, I mean seriously, then we can own this ourselves without any other assistance. We have some brilliant writers, awesome coders and others with that and other great talents. If you want to help do this, we have the talent. We just have to get serious about it.

WTF? Ya know. We have been talking ebook for YEARS. Shouldn't take an outsider to kick us into gear with our own content!?

Do we want to publish some Citadel goodness and get it out there? FUCK YES!
Do we want to get some new blood in here and boost the participation? CHA!
Do we want to use the base that we have here and publish some shit that we can sell? FREELANCE SoB's!

So let's do this our damn selves!

We are done with ideas and talk, all the ideas we could ever need are in this forum and inside the google doc.

I need somebody to OWN this and corral us cats into a timeline.
Whoever is willing to run it, and we all agree, then it is their project and we are the peasant workers paying our taxes to our liege.
Get out the whip and keep us moving

1) Putting together the ebook. I like the idea here: http://strolen.com/guild/index.php/topic,6655.0.html

2) Decide on the uniformity of it. Read this http://strolen.com/guild/index.php/topic,5800.0.html

3) Do we need a descriptor system that translates to stats? See this: http://strolen.com/guild/index.php/topic,5812.0.html

We did the talk, now lets walk it!

Use the ideas or not, let's get something in final form!

THIS IS THE PHILOSHOPY OF THE EBOOK! We are in the DO IT phase. Enough thinking, worrying and stalling. Let's put something together and make it so!

The Cult of Done Manifesto
There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
There is no editing stage.
Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
Once you're done you can throw it away.
Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
Destruction is a variant of done.
If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
Done is the engine of more.

Once we have it in a state that it is ready to publish, then I can transport it to our kickass ebook design in the final phase.

I pledge that I will help along the way and drop everything I am doing when it is ready to put into final form.
I simply don't trust my moods to get me through the creation phase. I got as far as I could with the google doc. There is a semblance of a start there but I don't care if it is abandoned. Whatever we need to to do to get it done, let's do it.

I will also pledge monetary support if we decide we need art.
Do you know an artist or have somebody on deviant that you like their stuff. I will be willing to pay for quality art on a non-exclusive basis. I just want to be able to use it.

I am dead serious about doing this. But I need somebody to take ownership of it. I know me and I won't get it done. I will be an awesome assistant, but I can't drive this train.

ARE YOU IN?