Tell me about a dream project of yours (Within the world of writing)

I'd like to write the main story for an MMO based on my own setting and creations.

 

One thing about it, that's not necessarily relevant to the story itself, is that with an MMO there's plenty of opportunity to show off all of the little details of world building that never finds their way into a novel. And there are a tons of little subplots that can be told in parallel without having to worry about confusing readers.

 

Oh, yes, me too.

 

I could be here all day answering this question. That's not a joke or exaggeration. I have ideas for everything from a board game, to an RPG, to video games, to a webcomic, to a superhero universe, and that barely scratches the surface.

Let's go with, err.... okay, I'll do the "big pipe dreams" for my Smughitter series.

Buried in the background history I have a premise for a movie trilogy set three hundred years prior, where the region in the story was established. It starts off with a powerful fairy queen who kind of breaks bad and it leads to a massive war. There's a lot of magic, personal drama, and big characters. The deep history in this setting is all towards being cinematic, including the fall of Kax Helyis and the second tragedy of the Seelie Court.

Also buried in the story: The starting point for a video game. I'm deliberately creating the world to be filled with potential micro conflicts, with puzzles and enemies and dungeons everywhere. The idea is that a video game might begin and pick things up after book 5, set up to resolve all those little conflicts. An example of this is the fairy stone sites that have been seized by militia-type groups known as the Wantonlings, and given names like Hussy Stage and the Pissing Stone. Those are relevant to understanding the characters' history and pain, but they're not going to be reclaimed during the books. They're conflict sites for a video game.

And, err, one more: A TV series would be designed to follow a group of characters as they join the Anjana fairies and leave the region to explore the rest of the continent in search of seelie magic that may have materialized elsewhere... There's also room for an animated show maybe in a school that goes back to the bare-bones starting idea of my story, and involves a fairy character pulling small magical pranks on people in exchange for a bit of cash. And, uhhh, maybe a darker short series about a hob that has just woken up, alone, in a small town, and starts wrestling with its urge to torture everyone.