At the beginning of the three day weekend (Happy Presidents Day!), I opened a poll allowing you, the people, the opportunity to vote and tell me which of my projects you would like to see finished next. I have to say that I’m a little surprised by the results, which can be grouped into “two that got a lot of votes”, “two that didn’t get many votes”, and “the one in the middle.”<\/p>\n

The two that got the least votes were “Lapband Book” and “Commodore Games Review Book”. I get why the Lapband book placed where it did as this isn’t really its target audience, but I was surprised that the C64 book ranked as low as it did. I probably should have put more effort into explaining the details of each book\/project.<\/p>\n

“Finishing the text adventure” landed almost exactly in the middle. I think I have had conversations about text adventures with everyone who voted for me to finish my text adventure, so the people who voted on this one were not all that surprising. <\/p>\n

That leaves the “Music Production” book, and the “fictional hacker story”, each of which got a total of eight votes. And so, based on that, here’s what I’m gonna do.<\/p>\n

\n(Not the actual artwork. I made this in 3 minutes.)<\/i><\/p>\n

01. Finish the text adventure. Yes, I realize it didn’t get the most votes. I’m putting this first because I think I can finish it in about two weeks. For those that asked, the game is being programmed in Inform 6 which will make it playable on most computers and anything with a web browser. Finishing this up (a) gets it out of the way and (b) gives me time to mentally get my next project lined up. And that will be …<\/p>\n

02. The Music Production Book. The people who know the stories behind this one all agree that it should be a good read. It’ll be funny and personal, in the vein of Commodork, but as Earl noted should have a slightly wider reader base than a book dedicated to old computer bulletin boards. When I finish this one up, it’ll be time for …<\/p>\n

03. The fictional hacker book. No promises of quality on this one, guys. I’ve written lots of non-fiction over the years and my share of short stories, but nothing fictional of any length. I’ll try my best on this one — I’ve got some good ideas, but I’ve had trouble in the past linking a few good ideas into something the length of a novel. <\/p>\n

The goal is to crank out all three of these within 2011. <\/b><\/p>\n

Now that the voting’s over, I’d be interested to hear on why you didn’t<\/i> vote for what you didn’t vote for. Maybe that will help me with my future marketing and pitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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