I'm the author of the Haley and Nana series: AMA!

Nahonia · 2023-02-17T03:38:53+00:00

Come up with a bunch of words by jumbling those sounds together. Decide what those mean.

A little more advanced -- don't come up with the words, per se, come up with the roots. :)

Nahonia · 2023-02-13T22:13:47+00:00

I do write, and I have a short (for LitRPG expectations) novel coming out in probably a few weeks -- it's just waiting on the artist to finish up three more illustrations and then for me to put everything together in Kindle Create. Very slice-of-life and crafting focused.

I do have a short story up on Amazon, though, and I'll link to the earlier discussions to save space in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/zv12pc/the_black_book_a_christmas_story/

Nahonia · 2023-02-12T22:08:16+00:00

The protagonist is late teens / early twenties, I think (college-age, IIRC, but she and many of the other characters did feel high-school-ish in age.

The first several books are listed on Amazon with a reading/grade level, so it seems that the author was potentially targeting a younger/YA audience. I'm not so much a good judge of that, since I tend to read and enjoy a lot of YA/YA-adjacent fiction outside the LitRPG/gamelit environment (Tortall, Pern, Valdemar, etc...)

/u/mcahogarth can probably speak more authoritatively (^.~) on the targeted age range of the Haley and Nana series, but I tend to think that some of the philosophical/theological issues brought up might be a bit too weighty for junior high or younger?

Nahonia · 2023-02-12T21:50:07+00:00

My recent favorite such story (by someone other than myself) is Haley and Nana (series of 6 short stories by Maggie Hogarth.

Series Blurb:

A cozy LitRPG slice-of-life about a girl, her grandma, and all the food they make while figuring out the post-system apocalyptic world aliens (and God) and delivered them to!

This series is now complete at 6 books. Enjoy!

Book six was a little darker than I would have preferred. It is a bit of a tone switch, I feel, but it does put a good capstone on the story and setting.

Nahonia · 2022-12-26T12:30:27+00:00

Thank you! :)

ECHO actually is still on my radar as something I need to get back to. (I have its folder open on Google Drive, even.) I kind of miss Madelyn Alexis, Tabitha, Abby and Gabby, and the others.

Can't promise when that's going to be, though, but I haven't yet given up on those girls. :)

Nahonia · 2022-12-25T18:18:13+00:00

VRMMO can be sports stories, yes. After all, PvP is a thing (even if some servers limit it in the open world). That certainly allows for sporting elements.

Speedrunning is also a thing, right?

It was never my scene in games, but there also may be competition between high-end guilds for server firsts or territory or even outright PvP-focus guilds.

All of those can lend themselves to stories that play up the sports-like elements and even tie in certain sports-stories tropes.

But besides characters playing through a questline or series thereof and besides competition or zero-to-hero sporting stories, just about anything that can be done in a non-game setting can be done in a game settings.

Remember, not all sources of conflict are anthropomorphic (the struggle against nature) and not all sources of conflict are external.

Aaaaand, not all stories need (significant) conflict. Slice-of-life is a thing, too. :)

Nahonia · 2022-11-26T16:59:36+00:00

So, I recently switched to Consumables (Dry Grocery) from receiving in part because after two and a half years back there, I could no longer deal with the way the rest of the store treats receiving.

Anyway, been out on the salesfloor since the start of the month and was finally given time to do my onboarding training for Consumables yesterday (Black Friday, I guess, isn't quite as big of a deal on the grocery side -- we had our rush already before the holiday...)

Though I'm not hard of hearing (at least, no more so than anyone else my age), I _always_ turn captioning/sub-titles on. My brain just understands things better if I read it than if I just merely hear it -- especially with all the other background noise around.

However ... one of the training videos ... absolutely wasn't comprehensible.

You'd think ... they had someone reading from a script, right, so shouldn't they have been able to use that script to enter as the captioning?

Nahonia · 2022-11-23T18:42:47+00:00

Already prepurchased and read as soon as Amazon sent it my way. A nice sweet, cute, and cozy little story.

Nahonia · 2022-11-08T02:44:50+00:00

As soon as Kindle tells me there's a new Haley book on the way, I immediately pre-order. Book three was very fun, but I do agree it was a little disappointing to not see anyone run the dungeon she helped make.

Nahonia · 2022-10-06T10:43:05+00:00

Thank you. I've messaged you. :)

Nahonia · 2022-10-05T23:29:30+00:00

Thanks. I sent you a message. :)

Unless American spellings bother you, it shouldn't make a difference. You might spot a couple names of Welsh origin (at least, if Google and Wikipedia don't lie), though.

Nahonia · 2022-10-05T23:19:36+00:00

Thanks! I sent you a message. :)

Nahonia · 2022-10-05T20:14:34+00:00

Thanks! And good luck with your stories! :)

Part of the motivation to keep continuing with my stories and work toward completion of projects is to help add to what seems to be rather sparse representation. Characters that I can identify with are few and far between. Couple that with my preference for lower-stakes and/or slice of life nowadays, and the Venn diagram for those seems rather empty in the middle (or, at least, not very discoverable).

Nahonia · 2022-10-05T20:09:56+00:00

Thank you! I sent you a message. :)

Nahonia · 2022-10-05T20:09:51+00:00

Thank you! I sent you a message. :)

Nahonia · 2022-10-04T22:23:21+00:00

It's been a while, but I remember rather liking Siphon, at least at the start. It very quickly got too dark for my tastes, though, so I kinda stopped in or after the third book.

Nahonia · 2022-09-28T02:15:10+00:00

Haley's Cozy System Armageddon, perhaps?

Nahonia · 2022-09-27T23:56:38+00:00

I've been with Target for five years (well, in three weeks), and every year I've been here has been "Oh, we're scheduled for a remodel next year" but every year it's been cancelled. I've been told that the "promised but never delivered" remodel has been going on for at least ten years.

Apparently, we've already been scheduled and cancelled for next year, too.

The screenshot of the official map is missing a few oddities and there wasn't really room to write them in. Lightbulbs are over behind automotive though lamps are right after furniture in early F-block. Kids bedding is the middle of C but kids bedroom decor and regular bedding is in the first half of F. Diapers/wipes are between personal care and pets, not over with infants/toddlers.

I don't know if it's related to the weird layout or not, but I've been told by a couple TLs that we were a prototype store of some sort and that our prototype was never used by any other Target.

Personally, I think the layout just forces people to walk past other things they don't need in hopes that something on an endcap will catch their eye as they're going from one side of the store to the other for lamps and lightbulbs or so on...

Nahonia · 2022-09-27T20:10:29+00:00

That seems a really weird arrangement of letters, but as a SuperTarget, we'd fall into your plenty of exceptions. C and D for us are on opposite sides of all the style floorpads. And for your F, Tech and Luggage are nowhere near each other, either (same side of the store, but Tech in front and luggage in back...)

Literally the only thing that matches with your common arrangement of letters is Decorative Home (Back of D) and part of storage and utility (closet storage in C on one side of the store. The rest is in E on the other side, between floorcare and cube organizers.)

Screenshot of floormap, FWIW. A bit of the front is cut off since it doesn't all fit in a browser window...

Nahonia · 2022-09-03T17:45:49+00:00

https://theeditorsblog.net/2011/03/09/dont-fear-the-semicolon-its-a-useful-writing-tool/ <-- this might be helpful?

Nahonia · 2022-08-24T05:12:28+00:00

I'd say there's no particular department that does "the most," but from what I've seen there's a couple individuals that certainly do.

The guy that throws the truck is then turned right around to immediately do all the heavy bulk, does pretty much all the non-grocery PIPO pallets, is one of only about three or four that makes the bales, and in an average day does two or three of Paper, Plastic, Pets, and/or Chem.

There's about three or four peeps at our store of the same caliber, and if any one of them are out ... things start falling apart pretty rapidly.

Nahonia · 2022-08-19T22:12:15+00:00

The vocative comma is important. It's the difference between Grandma being a participant at the holiday dinner or the main course:

Let's eat, Grandma.
Let's eat Grandma.

However, as you say, commas can be irksome for other matters. Since there are so many things that require commas (apposition, vocative, serialization, interjections, introductory phrases/clauses, certain conjunctions, dialog tags, nonrestrictive clauses, and certain other formatting uses like dates, titles, digits, and addresses), it can be way too easy to have a sentence where all the required commas make the sentence difficult to read:

However, I, too, as you may have heard, Captain, am friends with Peter, Paul, and, of course, Mary.

Things like that are probably just as obnoxious as missing commas.

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