I enjoyed the hell out of writing it. It's an extremely comedic book and it retains all of my typically vulgar language throughout. After all the time I spent writing, editing, and proofreading, I sat on my finished book and did basically nothing in the way of trying to get it published or represented by a literary agent. I think part of me felt that it wasn't good enough to get published, or that nobody would find it marketable enough to pick up because it's a collection of extremely personal essays from a guy that nobody's ever heard of.
That's actually a recurring theme with my work. I'll eagerly pour time into writing a book, making cartoons, blogging, or producing a TV show, and when the time comes to promote the hell out of the finished work and get the word out, I do absolutely nothing. Again, maybe part of me thinks it isn't very good and I'm embarrassed to hype it. Probably another part of that is my belief that if it's good I won't have to heavily promote it. Videos get millions of Youtube views by going viral, and not because the people who made them did a really good job promoting it. Maybe heavy promotion could get a dud video up to 5,000 views, but if it isn't good it isn't good, so I've just assumed that the reason why I don't have videos with millions of views is because they just aren't funny or appealing enough and left it at that.
Anyway, I don't want this book I wrote to just sit in a box without anyone ever getting a chance to read it since I did put a lot of time into it and literally fewer than 5 people have ever read a word of it, so I'll be periodically posting chapters to the blog. Anything with the tag "Tales From the Video Game Generation" is another chapter. A good friend from high school read the book and left some pretty helpful comments, and maybe if people like what they see here I'll consider putting some real effort into getting this thing sold. It's coming up in the next post. Enjoy.
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