“Field Notes from the Metaverse” will be a book that documents the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse and virtual worlds.

This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 150,185 Writing I just cracked the 150k! To be honest, I don’t have a word budget for the book. It will have as much words as it needs. And I absolutely expect the editors…

This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 147,130 Writing 49 of 75 chapters are ready for editing. That may not sound like good progress from the 41 chapters I reported two weeks ago, but I’m very happy with it. The last…

This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 142,713 Writing I am happily typing away and 41 of 75 chapters are ready for editing. This included a couple of chapters that needed significant restructuring. I already knew that I had been sloppy…

This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 141,579 Let’s scrap the “weekly”, shall we? Writing I am in the process of going through every chapter, unifying the tone and style of the book, and making sure that there is a logical…

This is a semi-regular update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 137,305 Happy New Year! It has been a year since I decided to embark on this silly side quest. And so far, playing a full-time author has been awesome. As I dug deep into the…

This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 123,588 Writing Ok, fine, Dungeons & Dragons gets its own chapter. The book already talked a lot about D&D, but only in the surrounding chapters. I talked about how D&D as a trend opened…

This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 119,237 Experimenting The Microsoft Word app for mobile has this really neat “Read Aloud” feature that recently got a update with new (and finally good sounding) voices. Last week I loaded in my current…

This is a weekly update on my progress to document the history, perspectives, and narratives of the metaverse.Current book word count: 120,489 Writing Yeah, I haven’t been good at updating the blog. There are reasons. But leaving my totally healthy and professional obsession with Dan Olson aside, I did get a lot of writing done.…