Introduction: Sorry, it took me a few days to write this. I looked around the site and got lost in the Labyrinth. Which is a good thing; this castle has many towers with many wonderful rooms. A little about me: Personal stuff that may prove useful here For years I worked in and around publishing. I started out in local TV writing scripts and copy. Moved up and around and lo and behold got a job with a regional publishing company. My last job was a contract position with an international lit agency. I’m no longer with that company due to health reasons. I’m not an editor—but I am a pretty good proofreader and beta reader. If you need a free set of eyes, I’d be happy to help. Also, if you need answers about how the real world of publishing works—I’d be happy to put my two cents in, even though I’m not an expert. Gaming and LitRPG: Other than Dungeons & Dragons, my first RPG PC experience was Sierra’s Hero’s Quest on a Tandy PC with 64k of RAM. Yes, I’m that old. It was back in 1990. My plan (since I have some time now) is to write some short LitRPG stories. Maybe with an ‘old skool’ flavor. Put a few of those together and publish them to get my feet wet. My personal opinion is that there is room for short story LitRPG as I’ve had many readers tell me they simply don’t have time to read everything coming out. Just last week, 18 LitRPG books came out and most were well over 300 pages. From there, I probably will write a series if I have a fan base that likes my product enough to buy it. How did I find this group? Paul Bellow. I loved Tower of Gates. I read it in March and I’ve followed him ever since. I like his D&D style of writing and how he separates characters and chapters. I appreciate a good storyteller. The TL;DR—my name is George. If I can help, let me know
You're double-secret-probation-banned, @Jason! I cannot take your insolence any longer! *Assumes true-form... Yes, I am secretly Nicholas Cage. Can you keep a secret?
This one? Or where the two nerds messing around with a monitor found they could control the pixels and made an asteroids-like game. I can't think of their names... Anyone?
Yes, I am secretly Nicholas Cage. Can you keep a secret?[/QUOTE] Don't compound things by being a bad actor too..
He's gone downhill and just selling his name basically. I wanted him to play Trump in my Trump Drumpf novel (which I wrote in 12 days for fun last year haha)... Anyway, I'm secretly not secretly Nick Cage (past or present). Carry on.
Selling his name? It isn't worth anything. He's probably one of the worst actors EVER. I'm mean.. he's a B lister that other B listers refuse to work with because they don't want their name drug through the mud by being associated with him.
I remember buying one of the Ultima Games (first one in color) and had a new monitor mailed to us that didn't work. The game had a cloth map and other trinkets inside, and I must've read the instruction manual so many times while waiting for a replacement monitor to actually play! Heh. Do you remember Oregon Trail on the Apple II? That's one of the first I played. Then we got the PC, and I taught myself how to do a Zork-like in Basic. Okay, okay, honestly I borrowed the code from a magazine article and changed it to fit my own story. I wish I still had a copy of that game.
I moved from a BBC model-b where I played the original wireframe elite far to much We then moved on to One of these babies!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer Well my Dad did, so I'd use it for "homework" lol
Yeah, my dad and I bought parts from Computer Shopper (remember THAT?) and build a PC-clone after he'd paid way too much money for an IBM AT for his CAD stuff.