My Virtual Reality

It just dawned on me that there may well be people out there reading this blog (ha! who am I kidding?) who actually don't know who the Hell I am and why I do what I do, so it's only fair I give a proper introduction.

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Hello. I'm Tony. I live at home, I work in a school, I'm not married, I don't have kids and my passion is writing. I love a lot of things, but it's writing I love the most. Thanks, in no small part, to this place:

Monster Zero Productions is basically a source of online fiction in screenplay format, known to it’s fandom as ‘virtual series’. The idea is a place ran much like a US TV network, creating season-long episodes of shows written by teams of staff under the heel of one showrunner (sometimes two). It’s a great network of writers and readers that’s been going strong for five years now, with no sign of letting up.

Fact is, when I found this place in August 2005, I'd already been writing this kind of stuff for nearly 10 years as a hobby anyway. A solitary endeavour before I'd found the Interwebnet. Coming across the VS world was like a cancer-victim finding a cure and getting sucked-off by the sexy doctor who invented it, in the same day. I've never found a better place on the Net and I doubt I ever will. Not only have I written coming up to 100 scripts through it which have infinitely improved my writing skills, but I've read fantastic work by some hugely talented amateur scribes which truly wouldn't be amiss on our telly boxes - and the brick on top of the chimney? I've made four real-life friends out of it. That alone makes the whole thing a worthwhile waste of time.

So, if you're a writer reading this (be you a newb looking for a place to belong, or a rising star preparing to break into the biz), pop over to MZP - it's a damn good place to develop original work, get honest and fair critique on your abilities, and just to shoot the breeze with people who don't spk lke an idiot LOL!!! or won't take the piss if you want to spend the whole day discussing how awesome Battlestar Galactica is. In other words, it's a snapshot of what our depressingly inane real world should be like.

This promotion ends here. Have a nice day.