I rather fancy writing a Cthulhu mythology based short story. Perhaps I’ll write one in instalments…perhaps not. I have some ideas. I would also like to merge it with some fantasy tropes or something like that. Or horror. Vampire fights Cthulhu monster, something silly like that. I could just write scenes; something to set the bar low, as usual.
I used to read a lot of fantasy as a teenager. Nowadays I’m too snobby or embarrassed to (shame on me). I like the idea of Dungeons and Dragons and Call of Cthulhu; the idea of interactive adventures, and the stats and books and worlds you can build, but it seems to just be too difficult to get a group of people together…so in some ways the same thing can be kind of achieved by writing a story. Though somehow the quality bar seems higher. I need to practice just writing a skeleton hodge-podge of ideas, and even just being happy with that. Half the fun is the creativity around the ideas and possible story lines…I don’t have to write the thing perfectly.
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