bregan-daerthe.bsky.social
Certified Research Coordinator. I put plastic beads on pegboards and iron them together. Sometimes they look nice. Sometimes I stream it http://twitch.tv/bregan_daerthe
👤 Joined on 23 January 2025
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@bregan-daerthe.bsky.socialThere is a doofus currently arguing here that no "creative talent" would choose to write tie-ins, and since I just did a panel this weekend on why creative talents choose to write IP, here are a few reasons. Non-financial reasons, for fun and because frankly it usually doesn't pay that well.
Show PostYou get to collaborate with people you might never meet, and sometimes those people are in other countries, and sometimes they are in the land of the dead.
Show PostMany writers find (I certainly do) that constraints can feed creativity, to a degree. "Write story" sure but "write a story about a sentient aluminum can with font allergies" yes now we're cooking.
Show PostMany of us like to write stories within traditions and to offer our own pebble to the pile. We don't always do this by being contracted to write IP but that is one way to do it.
Show PostWe meet new readers in new ways. Sometimes we bring non-readers in, or back. I have emails from people saying one of my Assassin's Creed books was the first book they ever read cover to cover, or the first book they had read cover to cover in years. Better than awards, those emails.
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