About Warren Bennett

April 16, 2010 at 8:03 pm
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I am a 34 year old gamer/writer/musician(Kind of) I live in the Arid Zone. I am a desert rat, though I have been known to venture out in to the wild north and far to the east from time to time.

I have been playing video games for as long as I can remember. My brother received an Atari VCS when I was a small child and I promptly took it over. Throughout my childhood we always had some kind of video game system in the house: Atari to ColecoVision to NES/Gameboy to…well I’ve owned all Nintendo systems (except for the gamecube.) For me there never was a great market crash of ‘85. All I remember is that games became really cheap and we stockpiled them; when I recieved my first NES in ‘87 I just continued playing.

On the PC side, my grandma has had a computer at her house since I can remember. I started playing games like Oregon Trail and Reader Rabbit along side classics like Beyond Castle Wolfenstein . The computer was suppose to be for my uncle, but my grandma kept buying them even after my uncle moved out and on to his own life. I ended up being able to play many of the early Sierra adventure games, which gave me an affinity for the point and click adventure that I still retain today.

I have a distinction (If you call it that) of experiencing both the early days of both console and PC gaming. I am comfortable on either platform and don’t think one is innately superior to the other.

I am also a writer, one that tends towards sci fi and fantasy but doesn’t necessarily write for an audience. If I like it, I figure someone out there must like it as well… Now if only someone will agree with me and pay me for my ramblings, heh. I love writing science fiction and Fantasy, both are my favorite genres. I am a voracious reader and am in the process of reading at least one book at all times.

I love writing, though it isn’t the easiest thing for me to do. I love when i get in to that mindset where everything fades around me and I am adventuring with my characters among the nooks and crannies of whatever world they are inhabiting. I’ve been reading for as far back as I can remember. I knew how to read before I entered kindergarten and used to sit, bored, during the times when the teacher was showing off the letters of the alphabet.

I didn’t really start writing until my freshman year in high school. My first story was a dark semi scifi fantastical piece about a family that was attacked by raiders on the edge of the wasteland. One son survived, only to be told by his dying sister that he needed to find the will o’ wisp… It has been awhile since that year, but I have (more or less) been writing every since that point.

And now… I’m working on becoming a professional.

Go me.

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