how to celebrate the 100th book
DRAGONTIARNA: KNIGHTS was my 100th novel, and people asked what I wanted to do to celebrate it.
Have a party? Go on a trip? Take a long vacation? Have a drink (or three)?
But I really didn’t want to do any of those things. I thought about it, and finally someone suggested that I should do what I really wanted to do, deep, deep down.
So I did.
I bought a Nintendo Switch. 🙂
I really like it. It’s nice to play SKYRIM or PILLARS OF ETERNITY while reclining in comfort on the couch. You can do that with a laptop, but the laptop gets really uncomfortably hot, which isn’t a problem with the Switch. I also like how the Switch Online service comes with a library of old NES and SNES games. LEGEND OF ZELDA: LINK TO THE PAST was one of the best games ever, and I’ve been playing SUPER METROID, which I never had the chance to play back in the early 90s when I played LINK TO THE PAST.
Who knows? Maybe if I had played SUPER METROID in the early 90s instead of LINK TO THE PAST, I’d be writing massive 20 volume science fiction series now instead of fantasy ones. 🙂
-JM
Congratulations and nice to hear you found a way to celebrate that suited you 😉
We love our switch too, but playing with the kids, we play mostly Super Mario, Kirby an Zelda..
I look forward to reading the rest of your books. You are inspirational and I am in awe of your ability to continuing to make stories up! You are awesome 😉
Kind regards, Anna
Thanks! I have to admit I never really got into multiplayer games – games tend to be something I do when I don’t want to be bothered by anyone. 🙂
Maybe the world could do with more space fantasy dungeon/hex crawl novels. Some of the Warhammer 40,000 novels might fit that description, but not very many, and I don’t believe I’ve ever heard any other ones.
By the way, did you ever pick up the guidebook for A Link to the Past? It had some great art by the artist Katsuya Terada that blew my mind when I was a kid. The later 3D Zelda games never quite lived up to the images that art put in my head, and which I could easily project on the pixel sprites.
I never read the guidebook, but I did finish LINK TO THE PAST back in the 90s. Great game!