Even when I play Magic:The Gathering, I almost always play red monocolor - the smash-things-with-fire color WOW POWER LEVELING. In person, I am intellectual and fairly elegant in the way I dress and speak, so people are generally surprised that I like to play tanks. But that is the beauty of gaming, is not it? Becoming someone else WOW POWER LEVELING, doing things you can not do in the real world.

I have this attention arc with games. I play them obsessively, but I am always chasing my own attention span about WOW POWER LEVELING. Once I get reasonably good at them, I often wander off. In this case, it was a combination of that and not wanting it to become a bigger part of my life than it already was. When I came back from Japan, I kept playing for awhile, but I was publishing regularly by then, and once you start writing full time all your other activities get jumbled up to make room for this huge new thing in your world about WOW POWER LEVELING.

It is weirdly like having a baby - you have to raise this career and it is hard to keep doing things the way you used to get WOW POWER LEVELING. As I got busier and busier, I had less and less time, and finally I just stopped completely so that I could focus on my books and rebuilding my life after Japan. I knew from the beginning that if I let it, gaming would take over all my time. But unlike a console game that has a distinct beginning and end to get WOW POWER LEVELING.

Absolutely! So many players struggle with becoming completely sucked into MMO game worlds. Are you still able to allow gaming to be a creative break, something that refreshes and replenishes your energy, or do you find you need to avoid gaming siren lure when you are immersed in a writing project?