thread: 2005-06-16 : Craft and Innovation
On 2005-06-17, ludisto wrote:
I work in publishing, specifically high school textbooks, and the development and production schedules for a new edition of a current book are usually around two to three years. A new book (when it's not being fast-tracked for timeliness, like our E-Commerce title) is usually five or six years in the making.If anything, the best thing I learned coming here is to stop thinking of my own writing in such short timelines as I was: not "Get this written this month and published in three" but "Get this published in 2007."
Now you could also think of RPGs in terms of genre (broadly, broadly considered). How long did it take to develop the novel as we know it today? I'm sure the speed of communication (shortening the writer-publisher-reader feedback loop) will make the development of RPGs take a little less than the hundred years it took the novel, but still—we're not in any hurry!
