Yesterday, I used AI to make a pretty good cover for this novel. It's a long way from being published, but something about seeing art and seeing my ideas physically is pretty exciting for me. Which is another thing that I've noticed. I'm actually excited to write this story. That's not really something that I'm used to. I haven't actually been excited about writing anything for a really long time. Even when I was able to do it more regularly, I still had a sort of steady dread and avoidance about it. I'm not feeling that right now, so that's good.
I've always wanted to write sci fi adventure and I think that's what litRPG is in today's landscape. It is a modern version of sci fi adventure. It's easy, fun, pulpy, doesn't stretch your imagination too much and it doesn't expect you to care about boring shit like detectives and lawyers. I hope that this genre still has a good run left in it, because it looks like some other genres that I love (ie cyberpunk, and urban fantasy) don't have much readership these days. Not to say they're dead, but they aren't flying off the shelves faster than they can be written anymore. And that's okay. Readers move on to new genres, writers can do it too.
It occurs to me that I'm getting no readership on this blog because I'm doing nothing to advertise it. No labels or keywords. No pictures. Not sharing the link anywhere. Lol. And yet, knowing that doesn't make me want to go out and promote it. This is not the real work that I'd like to show off, this is just the scratch paper. The back-of-the-napkin notes. That's all. It's not for the goal of gaining readership. That comes later.
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