How much of the story and world-building was developed in advance, and how much arose through the process of telling it? Do the co-authors currently plan things out together off-forum, or is what we read both the story and the process of creating it?
As I understand it, the setting of Golarion and Cheliax is Lintamande’s take on the world from the Pathfinder RPG system. She’d already written lots of glowfic stories in that setting by the time Planecrash came to be. Meanwhile, Eliezer had already written about dath ilan in some other places (like the original April Fool’s post, and later on in some shorter glowfic threads). So there was definitely lots of pre-existing worldbuilding.
But whenever the story demands it, the world is further fleshed out. Eliezer even occasionally posts Twitter questions on things like “what’s the best way to do X” as inspiration for dath ilan’s Civilization.
How much of the story and world-building was developed in advance, and how much arose through the process of telling it? Do the co-authors currently plan things out together off-forum, or is what we read both the story and the process of creating it?
As I understand it, the setting of Golarion and Cheliax is Lintamande’s take on the world from the Pathfinder RPG system. She’d already written lots of glowfic stories in that setting by the time Planecrash came to be. Meanwhile, Eliezer had already written about dath ilan in some other places (like the original April Fool’s post, and later on in some shorter glowfic threads). So there was definitely lots of pre-existing worldbuilding.
But whenever the story demands it, the world is further fleshed out. Eliezer even occasionally posts Twitter questions on things like “what’s the best way to do X” as inspiration for dath ilan’s Civilization.
I wonder this too. My impression is that it’s some of both.