Author Introduction

Hi! I'm Zeno(s)writer. It's kind of amazing to think that we're done with Volume 2 after only a month of work. Since I started publishing a chapter a day, I've written over 70k words and crested 100k total across the entire project. That's enough for a full-length novella, even if my editor removed 30k words (and knowing my luck, they would.) I want to thank everyone who's reading, and especially those who've added my book to their collections. Whether you're someone that tossed Emperor NPC in your library and forgot about it, or someone who keeps up with my frequent updates, thank you.

Reader interaction buoys my morale and in absence of that, collections are the only thing I have to motivate me to write.

So, a little about myself: I'm a 25 year old author that lives in the american northwest. I'm a professional and I (self)-published my first novel when I was 19. It did awfully, and I think I made a total of $50 from two years of effort. Since then I've met publishers, worked with some of the best editors I've ever known, and seen things I've wrote become concise, awe-inspiring pieces of fiction that I still think are stunningly beautiful.

Emperor NPC is not one of those pieces of fiction.

I'm flying solo without an editor and with almost no oversight. I wake up in the morning at 7 AM, make a fruit smoothie, hype myself up with some music, and finish my work around 2 PM. I publish immediately after I'm done. I know that without an editor, many of the mistakes I make harm the overall quality of my work. For instance, I love to use compound words like overall and I'm often wrong. Similarly, I'll drop a's and the's occasionally enough that one sentence can become confusing, and simple read-aloud won't always catch the issue.

Even so, I'm a professional. My story building method is to render the entire plot at once and then, with each successive pass, iron out details until it's clear in my mind. That means Emperor NPC already has a middle and an end to follow our beginning. When I say you can expect 9 volumes, you can believe it.

There's more I could write, but that's pretty much it for an introduction. I'm thinking about starting a blog for lore and writing philosophy. I'd like to ramble a bit about my ideas for dwarfs, elves, and maybe do a retrospective on the ideas I had for Volumes 1 and 2, and why I made the decisions I did. Look forward to it!