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In that I write substantially more when "more words" = "I will get a reward toward a quest".
Here is my year to date chart from Wordkeeper Alpha:
I have a 14 day streak on 4thewords right now. Of those 14 days, 11 are over 1k (and today will be, too, after some 200 word sprints vs some Love Frizis; I need love dust before the holiday event ends, damn it). I finished a 6k word erotic short in 6 days (which is still a far cry from "I wrote my latest short in an afternoon" but I will take what I can get, here).
For the curious who missed my last post, the link is 4thewords, and my referral code is PFXBS32680.
In other, but related, news, LitRPG is the current hot topic of conversation on my primary writing forum as a growing market, and this feels like it should be up my alley, but I keep soft bouncing off the actual books. I stalled out on Dungeon Lord because, even though the narrator is brilliant and the opening with the raid group involved a lot of gleeful recognition on my part, the actual "entry into the gameworld" section just made me hate the main character. I have also discovered that I have no tolerance for main characters who are so new to, not just their specific game world, but the CONCEPT of gaming, that they can't suss out from context basic terms like "vendor trash". I'll give your character (oh god, I almost typed toon right there; no self, this is books, not actual games) a pass if they have trouble with the alphabet soup of AOE and DPS and DoTs and HoTs, but seriously, how hard is it to grasp that "vendor trash" is "trash you sell to a vendor"?
I have no actual plot for a LitRPG novel, and looking at what's available on Amazon I suspect anything I wrote would fail to hit the market and sink into swift, 1-star oblivion. But I kinda want to write about a gaming couple where he got his girlfriend into the game thinking he'd have a nice healbot, and instead she decided to tank for his squishy DPS ass. And then *handwave* they end up in the actual game for REASONS and PLOT happens. IDEK, this is just me being contrarian to both the Douchelord Gamer Dudebro MCs and the Clueless N00b MCs.
Here is my year to date chart from Wordkeeper Alpha:
I have a 14 day streak on 4thewords right now. Of those 14 days, 11 are over 1k (and today will be, too, after some 200 word sprints vs some Love Frizis; I need love dust before the holiday event ends, damn it). I finished a 6k word erotic short in 6 days (which is still a far cry from "I wrote my latest short in an afternoon" but I will take what I can get, here).
For the curious who missed my last post, the link is 4thewords, and my referral code is PFXBS32680.
In other, but related, news, LitRPG is the current hot topic of conversation on my primary writing forum as a growing market, and this feels like it should be up my alley, but I keep soft bouncing off the actual books. I stalled out on Dungeon Lord because, even though the narrator is brilliant and the opening with the raid group involved a lot of gleeful recognition on my part, the actual "entry into the gameworld" section just made me hate the main character. I have also discovered that I have no tolerance for main characters who are so new to, not just their specific game world, but the CONCEPT of gaming, that they can't suss out from context basic terms like "vendor trash". I'll give your character (oh god, I almost typed toon right there; no self, this is books, not actual games) a pass if they have trouble with the alphabet soup of AOE and DPS and DoTs and HoTs, but seriously, how hard is it to grasp that "vendor trash" is "trash you sell to a vendor"?
I have no actual plot for a LitRPG novel, and looking at what's available on Amazon I suspect anything I wrote would fail to hit the market and sink into swift, 1-star oblivion. But I kinda want to write about a gaming couple where he got his girlfriend into the game thinking he'd have a nice healbot, and instead she decided to tank for his squishy DPS ass. And then *handwave* they end up in the actual game for REASONS and PLOT happens. IDEK, this is just me being contrarian to both the Douchelord Gamer Dudebro MCs and the Clueless N00b MCs.
