The stories do not need to be directly linked to the game, no. What we are looking for is alternate history stories in the era of EU4, inspired by EU4, but they shouldn't be written in game terms.
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Paradox Short Story Contest 2014 - Rewrite History!
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The stories do not need to be directly linked to the game, no. What we are looking for is alternate history stories in the era of EU4, inspired by EU4, but they shouldn't be written in game terms.
Writing it as a historical text, from the perspective of a historian looking back at a pivotal event and its causes and repercussions, should be acceptable, yes? Just checking while I'm only a fifth of the way through.
Oooo Been a Harry Turtledove fan since Guns of The South and How Few Remain.... Eric Flint is also awesome in this genre the 1630 series especially. Time to get to work!
Doubt I have the follow-through to write anything, but this does give me a few ideas for interesting games.
Are you prohibiting illustrations? Asking purely because it's harder to write a story than it is to draw a comic.
This is great, I already managed write one fifth of the whole. My writing skills are a bit rusty though, do you get penalized a lot if you have one or two typos in the text?
As has been mentioned above, Eric Flint's 163X series is pretty fun, what with West Virginians bringing truth, justice and the American Way to 17th-century Germany. Winston Churchill was a good alternate history writer too, although he wrote woefully little of it. I still haven't read For Want Of A Nail, to my eternal embarrassment.
If you think you need a visual aid to fully explain something, it might just be worth going back to either rewrite the section more clearly or scrap it altogether anyways.
Pretty awesome that you got Turtledove on board. He's a master. Definitely thinking about entering this.
The stories do not need to be directly linked to the game, no. What we are looking for is alternate history stories in the era of EU4, inspired by EU4, but they shouldn't be written in game terms.
Cool, I've always wanted to try my hand at Ottoman (alt-)historical fiction. The deadline is pretty tight and I won't have a lot of free time between now and then, but I'll certainly give it a shot.
I am in I have uni exams but this could just be what I need as a distraction when I'm sick of revision
The stories can of course be inspired by EU4 and EU4 sessions - that's the whole idea - but a reader should be able to understand them without knowing the game. The anthology will (hopefully
Hey! I take offense to that! "layman's terms"... the nerve! Just because my last name is Layman!?
^that was a joke by the way. I'm not offended, though my last name is really Layman.
Also, I might enter the contest though the timeline might be a little tight.
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Tomas! Click on the link above! That story right there deserves to be in the book! What do you think of it?
Already cooked up and submitted my own story. Kinda feeling a bit regretful for rushing it, but I think I delivered a quality entry.
Only counts maybe halfway through, as she writes magical realism / fantasy historical literature, but Susanna Clarke. I absolutely loved the depiction of the Peninsular War in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrel.