Forum:Free-to-use creations

Those of us who write stories, or play in RPGs, or whatever, often come up with background characters, races, groups, technology, what-have-you, that aren't integral parts of our work, and may be no more than a throwaway line or an in-joke. But sometimes they strike a chord with someone else, too. Have you ever been reading someone else's story and seen some little piece of background fodder that made you go "Neat-o, wonder if he'd let me use that in my story?"

When I first started in fandom (good grief, has it really been ten years?), on the TrekCreative Yahoo Group, some of the guys loved to make up these background elements, and post them to the group, free for anyone to use in their stories. It's a fun way to flesh out your universe, and create a sense of community. I was thinking of doing the same here.

There are already a couple articles of mine that would fall into this category: Subspace Domain, Meditations on the Kir'shara, My Andoria and Pioneer Transports come to mind.

If others feel the same, maybe we could start some kind of category for this type of article, and create a template for them? What do you think? --TimPendragon 20:42, 18 August 2007 (UTC)