![]() So the Iowa native, who had been previously published in several literary journals, pulled the plug on his gaming habit and started to work on a new piece of fiction inspired by what was happening in his life. I was spending too much time there instead of reality, and I started to resent and dislike it.” “But I could play ‘Warcraft’ at night and feel a sense of mastery and belonging and social acceptance - and even pride when I started getting really good at it. ![]() I was in my late 20s, and my life hadn’t turned out the way I had hoped. I was getting rejection after rejection and was barely staying afloat. ![]() “I had just graduated from my MFA creative writing program and had these fantasies of becoming a young writer. “Nothing else was going quite right for me,” Hill says about his New York City era. ![]() For solace, he started playing the online role-playing game “World of Warcraft” and soon became addicted to it. ![]() He witnessed the protests during the Republican National Convention, which had turned violent and ugly. Nathan Hill was at a low point in 2004, having had all his possessions stolen out of his car while moving to a new apartment in the New York City borough of Queens. Sometimes, great art is born out of darkness. Nathan Hill author of ‘The Nix,’ will appear at the Miami Book Fair on Nov. ![]()
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