Who is Sargon Dorsai?
My real name is Matt Hester. I’m a 36 year old Father, Writer and Gamer from Portland, Oregon. The name Sargon Dorsai has been an online persona that I’ve been using since I first learned about the internet, back in the early 90’s. It’s the name of characters I’ve put into several of my stories that I’ve written over the years. He usually has a prominent place in those stories.
Anyway, back to who I am. I’m a stay-at-home Father. That’s the first and most important thing in my life. I cook, clean, and generally take care of the household and the kids. I’ve got four wonderful children, ranging in ages from four to thirteen. Yes, I’ve got a teenager and yes, it’s crazy. I couldn’t imagine life any different though.
I’ve been mostly home bound for the last couple of years. Some physical complications keep me from doing the normal working thing. It’s been one of those mixed blessing kinds of things as well. It’s forced me to focus on my writing and see if I can’t make a living at it. Being a writer is one of my passions and one of those careers that I’ve always thought of doing. Well, now I’m doing it!
I mostly write Science Fiction and Fantasy, with a smattering of poetry from time to time. I enjoy writing FanFiction, which you can check out at:
https://www.fanfiction.net/~sargondorsai
http://archiveofourown.org/users/sargondorsai/
In addition to my stuff that I’m writing just for fun, such as this blog and the FanFiction, I’m also working on a major project with a friend of mine. We’re designing an MMORPG and I’m doing most of the story work for that one. We’re still raising funding to get the work trademark/copyright whichever it is for the names of the game and the world, which is why we haven’t posted anything online about our progress. Once I can get those secured, you’ll be able to read more. You’ll even see some of the stories from that world posted here.
At some point I hope to have full short stories and novels based in my original worlds and get those published but I’m a bit limited on the amount of time I can spend on writing before the pain stops me. I’m keeping at it though. Writing here every day helps with that. Writing in general helps with that. It’s one of the things that makes me happy as well.
I also enjoy interacting with others. I do a lot of reading, whether online or paper. I enjoy reading about what people are up to and stuff that is just for fun as well.
Anyway, that’s a bit about me. If you’d like to know more, feel free to ask questions in the comments. Can’t promise that I’ll answer them all, but if I don’t answer I’ll explain why at the least.
For those more visually and audio inclined, you can check out my Youtube channel, where I do a weekly update on my writing.
https://www.youtube.com/sargondorsaigaming
(And on a related note… if anyone knows how to change a channel name so I can eliminate the “gaming” portion of the name, please let me know.)
Also, if you’d like to support my writing efforts, please consider becoming a Patron at:
Thank you for stopping by. Hope you enjoyed the trip.
I admire your ability to keep going in the face of adversity. I am facing some things as well which has grounded me to my home. Your doing great and I enjoyed your writing. Good Luck!
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Thank you. I greatly appreciate the encouragement.
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You are welcome😊
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Great to know about you sir and surely a Hats off to 😊
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Thank you!
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Welcome Sir 😄
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Nice to meet you, Matt. I’m in the Portland area too and love knowing that there more sci-fi/fantasy writers around. Portland has a great writers’ community. Thanks for the follow and I’m looking forward to connecting 🙂
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I saw the mention of the Oregon wilderness in your post about the Pajamas. Always glad to meet another writer. Though I’m a bit far away from being published. I still hold out hope though!
Now all I need to do is finish a project…
Oh look! Another project idea!
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Ha ha. I looked to see if you have a book out there. I didn’t start writing until my 50’s so keep plugging along, you’ve got time 🙂
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I’ve been writing as long as I can remember. I have writing journals from when I was ten. I still have them, sitting on my bookshelf (or did when I had room for the bookshelf. They will escape from their boxly confinement once I can find room for them.)
I have yet to finish a project. I have some ideas though, on ways that I can take my habit of scattered writing and turn that into something I could possibly get published. Short story compilations being the first idea. I have a couple of big worlds that I’ve written lots of scenes and short stories for, just nothing that can be interpreted as a cohesive novel.
I have one major writing project I’m working on, which is the MMORPG world of Entyl that a friend and I are working on. That one is going to have plenty of stories to share so I’m thinking I’m going to focus my first publication efforts in that direction.
I’ve got time though so I’m trying not to stress about it.
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I have another sci-fi writing friend in the area who is also a RPG designer. He definitely uses one to inform the other 🙂
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I feel that there is a lot of crossover with writing in that regards. It’s always fun to see how other writers split their attentions at times. Is your writing friend on here?
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Yes. He’s in Aloha. He doesn’t blog often, but here’s his site https://claytonjcallahan.wordpress.com/
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