Well yes, that's rather obviously saying that the adult does not think that Santa exists, and even more, actively tries to get children to believe otherwise. But then again, if it later is confirmed that the witch and faerie do indeed exist, the child might also apply that to the case of Santa, but that is not a given, and until that time, the child might be rather distraught with it all. You might want to muddle it a bit more.

Pcpoet: That seems like a good strategy. I'll keep it in mind for when I get stuck again.

Griffyn612: Indeed, history text-books are rarely the most interesting reads. It seems like a good building plan to me, and I will try to use it. I'm now working on shorts mostly, and trying to weave the world directly into the story. I'll PM you if I work up a real background piece, which most likely would be used as reference piece by me.

Farmerbob1: I'll try the reading out loud once I get back home (staying at the family for the holidays) or when I'm alone. Always makes me feel weird when I start reading out loud with other people nearby.
I am indeed trying to work the background into the story, but I got to watch out for making it a big info-dump. I always find that immersion breaking, unless it's done really well. One example of it done badly is CSI, I always think 'Wow, you guys must be really incompetent if the tools of your trade need to be explained every single time.' I understand the why, the viewers need to know what's going on, but to me that's not the right way. Now, to find a better way, that's the trick.

Thanks for all the replies, and I'm trying to go for hard science fiction, but since the only science I'm good at is biology, and not physics or mathematics, it will probably end up softer than what I had set out for. But there's no harm in trying.

It seems that I need to tell something about myself here, well, here we go.

I have always liked stories, whether I told them to myself when I got bored, or if I read the books containing them. Although I started out as a slow reader, and people even thought that I might had to be transferred to a special school, I quickly picked up the pace during the Christmas vacation during third grade (the Dutch version of third grade anyway, which takes place at the age of 7-8, during which we learn to read, write and do basic sums). By the time I celebrated my 11th year of life, I had read almost all the books that interested me of the Childs section of the library, and I snuck into the adults section. The cause of that tour into the lower floors was mainly caused by the fact that the series of books I was reading at the moment started in the Childs section, but ended in the adults section (it was the Belgariad, if anyone wanted to know). Apparently they thought I was getting books for my parents, and kept thinking that for about a year, after which they told me and my parents that I wasn't allowed back there anymore. This caused me to go back to the Childs section and broaden my taste, previously confined to Sci-Fi and fantasy, with Detective, Thriller and Ghost stories. Four years later, when I turned 16, I was allowed back into the adults section, which was about the same time as when I switched from reading the translated versions of the books, to the native English versions of it, which I found more enjoyable, mainly because for unknown reasons, translators switch between different translations of the same group between books, which annoys me.

About the making of stories myself, the stories I started with, which were either Sci-Fi or Fantasy, always had the major flaw of the main characters becoming practically invincible and therefore, boring. This is because I always like the idea of absorbing power of your fallen enemies, surroundings, artifacts, etc., this by means of incorporating tech or modules in Sci-Fi stories, or just absorbing powers and energy through rituals or parasitic powers for Fantasy. I am now trying to limit that kind of power. I have tried writing stories, mainly your typical sword and magic fantasy, on and off for a couple of years now. I always got stuck on certain points, being able to envision events and conversations in the future, but not being able to figure out how to get there. This caused me to go do some other things for a time, and after a while I would come back and find the story to be too childish or just plain bad, and I started again with a different idea. And again. Again. And again again. Now I decided to write the background and the world first, before I try to power to the block that stops me.

As it is now, for my personal situation, I am waiting for the results of both my final exams for the high school (VWO+ (Technasium), for the Dutch readers of this forum) and the results of the admission test for Medical school at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. With a little bit of luck, I will get allowed and then I will move to Nijmegen, trying to make a living on my own.

You're probably right about me being off about publishing, I honestly don't know that much about it.

And how would that story making for RPG's exactly work? Should I post it somewhere in one big, sort of organized heap?