Anatomy of a Proposal, or, How I Got the Infected for Running Wild Options

[Patrick Goodman]

Somewhere along the way, during one of the endless and painful CGL Speculation threads (#3, I think it was), I mentioned that I'd throw up the proposal that ultimately landed me the gig writing up the Infected for Running Wild. After much stuff going on in the world, and lots of other things going on here, I've finally gotten around to doing this little thing. Without much ado, then, I give you this proposal.

As proposals go, this really isn't an ideal one, but it's what I've got. Looking back on it now, there's a lot of things I'd change. Things would be tighter, and there'd be more examples of how I'd do things to show how the flavor would come through. That said, it did get me the gig.

When I first pitched for Running Wild, I had been having a long conversation about a new critter book for SR3, and I'd gone on at length in public about what I'd put in and how I'd do it if I was in charge. That's how this particular proposal came to be; I had just been calling the book Critters Redux at the time, so when Rob announced to the freelancers that this book had a slot, though nothing had been really thought out about it, I did a big search-and-replace in my existing proposal, did some cleaning, and sent this in.