Last week I was busy revising my short story for the second round of possible consideration in a children stories magazine when all of a sudden my computer screen went blank. I knew it was a matter of time before my 7-year old laptop gave way. Luckily, I was able to complete and submit my revisions to the story.
I found myself spending the rest of the evening looking at a wide range of laptops. My old laptop was a Sony Viao and I absolutely loved it but this time I was attracted to Dell as they had a huge sale going on. I wanted something that was not too expensive but had high performance and fast. Windows XP Professional was a must to have (to run my Windows XP applications) and because of this, I ended up having to customize everything I wanted in my computer. This gave me the flexibility to choose exactly what I want in my laptop: an HD wbcam for Skyping, 8GB of RAM, 750 GB of hard drive, Blu ray dvd player,etc.
As you can see, its been a while since I bought a new computer. So buying a new one now seemed to unleash the geek in me. I am a big fan of DIY projects and I found myself thinking about what to do with all this new powerful machine while not side-tracking my current publishing projects. Then it hit me. Why not make a game app for one of the children books I am working on. The first draft of the manuscript is complete. In the draft I have all the details and rules about playing the game. I do not have all the details right now but I am sure I’ll post again as I make progress with my plans.
Let the journey begin…
