Do you have a gamer in your life? Someone who sits in front of a screen and seems to melt into some other reality? They have in-depth conversation with people they have never met and talk with words you cannot understand. Welcome to the world of Second Life.
My daughter and I heard about Second Life on an old talk show in 2009 and decided to give it a try. It sounded like a fun way to spend some quality time together because they say you can live your wildest dreams in there.
What we found was an amazing world built by the inhabitants of the game. Residents rent pieces of land or entire sections called sims and have created unbelievable environments on them. Beaches, jungles, forests, ranches, shopping malls, cities, and fantasy lands. The list is endless.
People in the game can build stuff or make clothes and sell what you make. You can own a club and deejay or dance. If you love animals, you can create a horse ranch and breed horses or wild animals or dragons or animals you have not even heard of. You can do anything you want to do. Your only limit is your imagination.
In Second Life, you also meet other people from all over the world. You develop friendships, create families, or maybe even fall in love. This is just such a love story, very loosely based on how I met my husband of fifteen years. We got to know each other from the inside out.
This book took me a few years to write and lots of editing. Every book is a learning experience and a challenge which adds to the journey. Keeping a journal is a huge help, but another thing I had to learn was to slow down and add enough description to bring you into the story. Let me know how I did.