developing an idea

[ElectricBlue]

GMs typically are writers. Many of them write short stories, video scripts, or non-fiction articles in addition to roleplaying campaigns. If I look at a third forum where comic script writers hang out, they too are asking for feedback on their graphic novel concepts and outlines. Or, if we look at people who write for TV or AAA video games, they typically have group brainstorming sessions. Honestly I think it's only people from a 'traditional' writing/publishing background that don't like to develop ideas in a more social way. Possibly because novel and short story writing tends to attract a lot of introverts, while extroverts get pulled to other types of writing.

Very possibly. A writer colleague and I just recently had a long yarn about our Myer-Briggs indicators, where I've always been hard-over introvert (but management roles have taught me how to survive even when extroverts suck the energy out of me) and he, curiously, has shifted from extrovert to introvert over time (I didn't think that happened, generally, but I don't know how on the cusp his indicators are).

We collaborate well, and feed off each other (or our words do, at least - we've never met); but I personally couldn't think of anything worse than being with a bunch of creative people in a group. It would do my head in.

So yes, I get what you're saying - it's fairly safe to say that most of the folk active on AH are more the solitary writer types who function best in their own heads, hence the general low enthusiasm you observed in this thread. Different types of people, different needs and wants. Nothing wrong with that.