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Salud,

My Goals for Royal Road
Read, Write, Review, Connect with the community

I'm currently working on my backlog, creating socials, and building the back end business for a successful launch on this platform.

I'm closer to 50 than 40 (I'm not old, just high mileage), traveled all over the world, retired Army Veteran (23 years)

I love the craft of writing and connecting with other authors to exchange ideas.

My influences include, but are not limited to the following:

Anime Trigun, Vampire Hunter D, Demon City Shinjuku, 3 x 3 Eyes, One Punch Man, Solo Leveling, Chainsaw Man, Parasyte, Monster

Gaming Pool of Radiance, Wizardry, Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Phantasy Star, Lost Odyssey, Mass Effect, Fallout, Neverwinter Nights, Ultima Online, RuneScape, Old Republic, Dungeons & Dragons, Shadowrun, the d20 System, GURPS, White Wolf games, Birthright, and many more.

Books The Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends trilogies, Dark Sun’s Prism Pentad, The Forgotten Realms Avatar Series, every Drizzt novel, The Rift War and Demon War Sagas, The Night Angel Trilogy, select Warhammer 40K and Age of Sigmar books, The Land, Defiance of the Fall, Randidly Ghosthound, Dungeon Crawler Carl, He Who Fights With Monsters, Primal Hunter, Good Guys, Bad Guys, The Perfect Run, Spells, Swords, and Stealth, The Ripple System, Beastborn, Hell Difficulty Tutorial, 1% Lifesteal, and countless others.

Primary non-Internet Writing Resources Bird by Bird (Anne Lamott), The Writing and Critique Group Survival Guide (Becky Levine), Damn Fine Story (Chuck Wendig), The War of Art (Steven Pressfield), The Linchpin Writer (John Matthew Fox), On Writing (Stephen King), Plotting Your Fantasy Novel (Jed Herne)

I look forward to this journey and if you've read this far, I appreciate your time.