It’s probably not as complex a combination as I initially thought, come to think of it.ģ. I ended up with a blood-thirsty, occasionally mindless, and thoroughly tongue-in-cheek brute, but with the sensibilities of a sixteen-year-old boy. I played a bunch of games as an orc to get into the spirit, and watched a lot of Klingon-centric Star Trek episodes. There aren’t many pages from his point-of-view, but they were super fun to write. Probably Kugnar, Lesh’s in-game orc avatar. Which character in GUY IN REAL LIFE did you most enjoy writing? I definitely fell for her as much as Lesh did.Ģ. By the end, Svetlana-who didn’t exist in early drafts-was as rich a character as Lesh. Eventually, over hundreds of thousands of words of drafting, Svetlana became a character in her own right, until finally she had her own point-of-view and everything.
I sat down merely to write about a boy-Lesh-who played online games as a girl. I didn’t sit down to write a love story, actually. What inspired you to write a love story intertwined with role playing games? Especially when you no longer understand why you drew them in the first place.
When real life and in-game life inevitably become entwined, Lesh and Svetlana both start to realize that the lines they draw to keep their lives in order are not so easy to maintain. Lesh’s gaming life takes an interesting turn as, unable to figure out how to speak to Svetlana, he “becomes” her in-game. For now, Svetlana is simply looking for a fifth member to legitimize the Central High School Gaming Club, and Lesh is looking to escape his being grounded for said drunkenness by entering, reluctantly, the world of online role playing games. When they crash into one another in a drunken bicycle accident at two am, they don’t yet know how close they are to finding it. Paul, Minnesota, are adrift in a sea of social coterie, desperate for something to change. Cover reveal week continues and today we have the pleasure of revealing the cover for GUY IN REAL LIFE by Steve Brezenoff – author of Brooklyn Burning! ABOUT THE BOOK
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