Oni-goroshi book, blackcloak
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Glad that i stumbled up on the thread. Wasn't aware of the book.
Will read it this summer. :) |
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" I actually don't know off the top of my head, but yes, they basically created D&D. In the process they published a whole hell of a lot of fantasy novels. Some, like the original Dragonlance and Drizzt series, became legendary and launched huge author careers in the 80s and 90s. --- I would be very glad if that day came. I wrote pretty much all of the book years before PoE was even a thing, when I was a different person altogether, so really it's less that it is by the PoE 'personality' I later became (much to my shame these days) and more that what I became served as an unhealthy alternative for all that pent-up energy a person needs to write a book like mine. I genuinely let myself and my work down with how I behaved here. Not saying its all my fault, but I really should have known better by now. Oh well...no one ever accused writers of being resilient to self-destructive vices. Just glad it's over. OTOH most of the genuinely good reviews on amazon are by Exiles who gave the book a go, so I can't honestly say being "Charan" was all bad! :) https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. |
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" It's interesting how you refer to "Charan" as other self. |
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" Don't read into it; I don't consider it a separate personality or consciousness or whatever. It was just a role. One imbued with a fair measure of my real self, but not enough to really be 'me'. It was always a mistake to use my first book's protagonist as a screen-name for so high profile a role -- I've never been as prominent in any online community as I was here, and I never will be again. Multiple screen-name changes can't correct that mistake fully. Would that I had compartmentalised better; a few of my much older online friends who knew the name Charan from other contexts were very bewildered why it was being thrown around on a forum for what looked to them like a Diablo rip-off. More importantly, there is virtually no overlap between my role as "Charan" here and the character in the books in terms of personality, motivation, beliefs, etc. When I speak of that Charan, I don't use the inverted commas, because that's the real, original Charan to me. I did roleplay him for years elsewhere in dedicated channels, although now I couldn't tell you which came first: the play or the writing. I think the writing, but obviously the play added layers and layers to incorporate. I do know that when I quit RP altogether I *blazed* through most of the book -- I believe I wrote somewhere near 200 pages in a few weeks. Funny what happens when you stop pouring your creative energy into a void... That said, I'm pretty much done with Charan. Gave him 450 or so pages to tell his part of a much larger story, which is, no surprise, Hers and not his (which is why she gets the prologue). There are other voices, much more interesting to write and hopefully read, than some weird amalgam of a Malkavian, Vampire Hunter D, Paul Atreides and Oliver Twist. I mean, it'll always be a go-to name/build type in other games (right now I'm Commander Char Ah-Ran in Elite Dangerous solo mode, Charan *and* The Scourge in Titan Quest on ps4, and I recently finished Amalur as a Dark Elf Charan with a flaming sword -- of course!) but that's just like wearing a comfortable old sweater when at home. :) __ A funny sidenote: at PoE meetups, everyone used my real name *except* Chris Wilson, who once or twice referred to me as "Charan" and it felt reaaaaaaally weird (but I get why he did it; he didn't know if I'd given my real name to all these strangers, after all). It's weird because when you say "Charan" aloud, it's basically 'Sharon', which is typically a female name in the West. I knew he was talking about/to me, but there was still a moment of disconnect. That was sort of a nice confirmation that I hadn't somehow stumbled over some edge of sanity and into an abyss of believing I was "Charan". Phew. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jul 22, 2020, 10:15:57 PM
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Huh. Funny thing. I always read that name not as "Sharon" but as "Charan" with hard "H" at the beginning. But thats probably my native language influence.
Also it is good that You dropped that role. Im aware that You are not Charan but Charan lives within You and when You take role its influence You as You. Good thing thats over :) |
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" Hard C is also fine. I believe that is the correct pronunciation of Charon, Chiron and Chronos from Greek mythology. Char Ah-Ran in pronounced "char" as in "chalk" rather than "character", tapping Chinese pronunciation...point being, like many names in a multilingual world, there is no right or wrong way. Some say Jesus, others say Hey-zuse... https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable.
Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. |
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" Man, this tread really got me interested into book. Ill prob get some used Kindle paperwhite just because of the book. Even your forum posts are nice to read :D Last edited by TorsteinTheFallen#1295 on Jul 23, 2020, 5:31:54 PM
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" Thanks for the Twitter follow too! I have virtually no presence there and I've never really liked the...brevity of the format, but I'll be using it more before getting the Facebook account going again (I really, really dislike how fake and artificial facebook is when it comes to promotion -- if you pay for advertising, you get fake likes. it's gross). The physical version is *much* easier to read given it's designed to be flicked around and frequent usage of the glossary helps, and who doesn't love dog-earring pages? But the kindle version is *extremely* cheap for what it is. Oh, but be warned: my forum style is really unlike my prose. Really. https://linktr.ee/wjameschan -- everything I've ever done worth talking about, and even that is debatable. Huh. My mace dude is now an actual cultist of Chayula. That's kinda wild. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jul 24, 2020, 12:24:31 AM
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Asked my wife to get me this book for my birthday (next month).
~ I have selective hearing, and today, you have not been selected.
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" I have Twitter ( @eyesmirrorasoul ) from 2012 (same year I deleted my FB acc because of fakery in general) but I've never used it until new coronavirus appeared. Looks stupid at first but it's amazing when you get the format of it, even without tweeting anything. It's a great source of humor too. xD People are mostly anonymous which gives freedom in writing much like on forum but without aggressive moderation. I've searched for physical copy here (Serbia) but i haven't seen it in bookstores. I like the real thing better but getting a copy from Amazon gets expensive because of extra taxes and what not. So I'll go with the Kindle version. Wanted to get one anyway. One can see you are eloquent person. :) edit: EUR 34.32 shipping + customs + tax.... Kindle it is :D Last edited by TorsteinTheFallen#1295 on Jul 24, 2020, 11:43:33 AM
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