Now for something completely different! No, not a Monty Python sketch but Emerging Author Interview #2 for this week. Norbert Mohos is a writer but not in what many would consider the traditional sense of the word. Oh no, Norbert in in the process of creating a 21st century kind of novel, if not an entire world...Remember those old books from Steven Jackson and Ian Livingstone? Where you turned to page 17 or 25 depending on what course of action you wanted your hero to follow? Where you used dice and a pencil & paper? Think D & D (which they also had a hand in before they went huge and started Games Workshop as it is today? No...yes you do! Norbert has created Doomsday on Demand, a choice based interactive novel and had Doomsday on Demand 2 in the pipeline! He also has another choice-based novel he doesn't want to speak about in the works...Check Norbert and his project out, it looks very exciting, if only I had more spare time on my hands!!
Without any further do's, let's allow Norbert to tell us....
So, tell me about yourself, the person, not just the writer. You have 2000 words (ish, very ish)
I’m just a guy in my mid-twenties. Escaping reality and creating something new has always been a thing for me. It’s a very long story including many aspects of the artistic world. I have written my first short story around the time I was 12. It was around that time I tried my luck with poems, and realised its best for everyone if I don’t attempt that any more.
Social Media links: https://mobile.twitter.com/doomondemand It’s not complete yet.
Webpage: https://www.choiceofgames.com/2016/05/new-hosted-game-doomsday-on-demand-by-norbert-mohos/
How did you first get into writing?
I’ve written short stories of all genres for various websites. Skimmed through the comments, smiled and the positive ones and took the negative ones to the heart. I’ve always wanted a 100% positive feedback, but soon I realised that someone, somewhere, will not like your work, and that’s perfectly fine. I also found the genres I claim to be good at
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Have you published or received awards for anything you have written?
I’ve gotten my first bigger work, a choice-based game: Doomsday on Demand published on AppStore, Play Store and Amazon almost 2 years ago. The first few days it had a couple of comments, a couple of negative reviews and a couple of positive ones. Then, people began to like it more and the positive comments skyrocketed. I was surprised, kind of shocked, I didn’t expect it to be something like this. A “fan” also went through the hassle to write to everyone with the name like mine, just to find me. She said she has gone through many harsh replies. I found that flattering.
Tell me all about your current project, add a 200 hundred word excerpt if you like of your favourite part.
I have just finished Doomsday on Demand 2, it should be out in early 2018. I’m also working on a novel I don’t really want to speak of as of yet, and another choice-based story as well.
Have you ever or would you ever think of doing a collaboration (this is not an offer). Why/Why not?
That really depends on the person. I consider my writings kind of dark and gloomy, also realistic even if they contain fantasy elements. If I can find someone just as twisted as me, then maybe.
What experience or part of your personal life has been the biggest influence on your style and writing?
This is such a cliché but I can’t give you a better answer than life itself. I can write other things apart from dark and gloomy realistic stories of course, but I’m just good at that. Where and how I grew up probably had an impact on that as well. Also feedbacks on my early works.
Your writing and all projects…time to plug away..
New writers, what would be your most serious best advice?
Don’t listen advices, especially not mine. I’m bad at giving advices. Write what you want and how you want it, take both good and negative reviews in, and always improve yourself. Try out new things, don’t hold an idea back because you think society wouldn’t like it. Write what you want to write, not what you’re expected to write.
Ok controversial perhaps but what most irritates you with the world of writing today?
I guess trends have always been shaping the needs. So the current trends, mostly. I’d like to leave this topic as it is, though.
Thank you, Norbert, I am very excited to hear about your coming projects and recommend checking his current projects out! Doomsday on Demand takes me back to the good old days of my Fighting Fantasy book days with a modern twist and a post-apocalyptic, dark fantasy angle which I like. I enjoy dark and try to write it well myself. Norbert does dark very well! Also my name is one of the choices for a character name, so I'm immediately biased!
DOOMSDAY ON DEMAND is available to read/play here!
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