Guido Schmidt

Yeah, that is always the tricky part.

Especially because my book is quite niche. And it's a sequel to the first niche one.

But at least in the game development scene, people seem to like it :)

Book Progress - Editing Round Two is done. Still a few more to go and I haven't even gotten to the feedback part yet. And the next book is already knocking on my door XD:

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Ah well. Now I wrote it again. But better.

Hmpf!

a man in a suit is scratching his head ALT: a man in a suit is scratching his head

When you write on different devices and due to a file conflict you lose an afternoon’s worth of work.

🥲

Is there any better validation for your work? I don’t think so.

This is why we do this. ❤️

Thanks you so much for these kind words.

Btw - there is a book club happening with my first book. I’m also doing a Q&A session at the end of August.

This is a first for me - and super exciting 😀

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Can’t tell, left it months ago 🤷

Ah, reading correctly is a big advantage 😂

Well, it really depends on the kind of story, imo.
James Bond is a great character that never grows.
Or at least, he was, until the later versions of the movies…

Book Progress - Vacation over, now back to work. Editing for the book has officially begun. But I also played around with the idea for my next book: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Oh ok, yeah that sounds hardcore. 😬

Does it have to be?

1. Yuval Harari: A brief history of Humankind
2. Steven Pinker: How the mind works
3. Dawkins: The selfish gene
4. The Silmarillion (obviously)
5. Mistakes were made (but not by me)

There’s probably a ton more people should read, but those would be a good start 😏

Premise of my first dark fantasy chapter:

A servant girls gets hugged for the first time in her life and that sets off an escalation of events that ends with her stabbing her master to death.

🤔

Sounds about right.

I’m writing a sequel and I’m like - “I’ll write this anyway, because my story isn’t finished yet - even if no one will read it, it still must be told!” 😁

I also thought I can get some writing done while I’m on vacation. 😬

Ah ok, I see the problem 😁

A humorous meme based on a classical painting of an 18th-century man and woman in a lavish room. The man is leaning toward the woman flirtatiously, and she is pushing his face away with her hand while turning away. Text next to the man reads: “Damn girl are you sitting on an F5 key? Because that ass is refreshing.” The woman responds with: “Rupert are you a software update? Because not right now.”

That feeling when you know you have to show your work to real people eventually…

But not right now.
I want to live in my fantasy world a little longer.

Alone.

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Hmmmmm… 🤔

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Book Progress - First round of editing has started. Probably a lot more to come: www.linkedin.com/posts/narker...

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Well now I’m not doing it. 😠

So now I’m on vacation with the kids and taking a short break from my Game Design book.

Only to work on my fantasy book again instead 😅

Exactly what I was thinking, too 😂

Nice, almost like two sentence horror :)

On my current book I wrote my initial chapters and hopped over a few major plot points without realizing.

Then I thought, they weren’t that major after all, apparently.

And went on with it 🤷😁

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