TG Geeks Webcast Episode 384

The Two Gay Geeks have a chat with Zachry Wheeler, author of The Immortal Wake Series, the Max and The Multiverse Series, Max and the Multiverse Shorts, and Puki Horpocket Presents Series of which he has a new entry to chat about. A Phil Short. And if you are familiar with Phil, you are probably as excited as weaker to hear about this. This was great conversation as always with Zachry, who we have dubbed the heir apparent to Douglas Adams. Have a listen and we hope you enjoy this as much as we did.<br /> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />About Zachry Wheeler<br /><br />The first thing I can say about my writing history is that I never intended to be a writer. I went to college to become an accountant, and I wish there was a punchline to follow that statement. I made it through half the curriculum before caving to boredom and switching to Computer Science (no offense to the ledger jockeys). Luckily, all of my classes counted as elective credit, so it wasn’t a giant waste of time. I remember sitting in class thinking, “If this what my life will be like, I might as well end it now.” Thank goodness I had the keen insight to switch to a more exciting career in, um … programming.<br /><br />I graduated in the late ’90s. Yup, I left college with a computer degree right before Y2K. At the time, big-tech companies were handing out jobs to anyone who could spell “computer.” I also had the extreme foresight (blind-ass luck) to teach myself web development as it was gaining momentum. I oopsie-doodle back-flipped into a solid career.<br /><br />That’s when my writing life began, but I didn’t know it at the time. Most people think that programming is just staring at code all day. And in a sense, it is. But, there are a lot of other tasks that go along with it, including a large bolus of technical writing. Think documentation, wikis, manuals, etc. At a baseline, most competent programmers are actually decent writers. They need a strong grasp of language in order to do their jobs. It takes a certain amount