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If Quentin cannot get under my skin (and he cannot :p) then none of you can either
Challenge accepted.
(Why do I always become “Quintin” instead of “Quentin” ^^)
Indeed. To make it into a metaphor, I think there are seeds of stories at the origin of stories like NSR or
Lions. They tickle you enough that you planted them and you water them on occasions. By all means, don’t neglect them. But the Cerberus and Tech files are themselves fistful of seeds, and the nifty thing about them is that we as readers can partake in the game of building a mental image of your ‘verse, whereas your short stories are more like fruits : you grew them yourself, so they are more tasty, and they stimulate our imagination better (LOVED that description of the Thirty making the Reapers blue with badassery, for example), but the files are better at stimulating our intellects, which is perhaps more central to the pleasure of reading.I believe.
I think you should actually concentrate on the Cerberus Files in priority.
I’m sure they require more research, and are “dryer”, but I have also observed that the Files seemingly always correlate to a net increase in the sense of cohesiveness and appeal of the story. I remember, for example, when you didn’t know quite what to do with the Hanars, and it seems indisputable to me that working on it has opened fascinating perspectives on the story. I’m pretty sure something like that occurred when you were working on the Batarians.
I would say that both short, and long-term, you need to get such a ball rolling on (in that order) the quarians, the krogan, and the geth.
The other fictions are enjoyable as hell and I’m know that changing threads helps when you’re writing something complex, but unless I’m mistaken, Krogans and Quarians/Geth are going to start to matter as more than individuals very soon, and I believe they need to feel more fleshed out as races and cultures, the way Turians and Asari do.
