More Stupid Musings That No One Will Read

Writing is fun. It's hard, but it's still fun. Even if I never get anything out of it, I'm still having a good time. And I guess that's to be given some weight. And honestly, writing GameLit or LitRPG (or whatever it is that I'm writing) is the most fun that I've ever had writing. And again, that should say something. I have a tendency to get obsessed. You may have noticed. Lol. And that obsession leads into a kind of Stockholme's reaction, I guess. I get interested in a genre because it's popular, even though my own taste in books is pretty narrow. I tend to get the idea than anything is easier to write than my favorite genre. It's a weird, kind of toxic reaction, maybe?

I've dabbled in crime fiction. Detective fiction. Sci fi was actually my first followed by medieval fantasy. I did some erotica. Urban fantasy. Space opera. Dystopian. Cyberpunk. And now I'm into LitRPG. I honestly couldn't tell you if any of them are my favorite. For a long time, it was space opera, but I think the pressure of actually writing one was too much for me. I end up going impossibly grand and dense. And ultimately fluffy.

The point is, this genre I'm in now is a lot of fun and I can see why people like it. But I do see a lot of poorly written novels gaining success, which I find pretty odd. More than anything LitRPG reminds me of the classic sci fi pulp serials. They aren't trying to solve and world issues, or politics, or even speculate on anything. They just want to give their audience a thrill. And the best way to do that is target their daily fantasies. As a kid, I remember video games really infiltrating my fantasy life and I would often imagine I'd brought into a game, or a world from a game or something that worked like a game. But for me, the actually nuts and bolt of the game itself were secondary. Mostly, I don't even think about those things. I'm going for immersion. I want to be that character doing that thing.

Anyway, it makes sense is all I'm driving at. Games are accessible. More accessible even that movies and tv shows. People in my generation want to do something rather than sit there and have the story happen to us. We want to make the decisions rather than seeing someone else make them. I myself am one of those. When I want entertainment, do I pull up a show or a movie? No. I play a game or listen to a book. Probably both at the same.