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Celebrating All Things Romantic Returns!

 Celebrating All Things Romantic, My Games, My Stories, Video games, Writing  7 Responses »  Tagged with: , ,
Feb 012021
 

Much like we celebrate spooky games in October, last February saw our first “Celebrating All Things Romantic” theme in honor of Valentine’s Day… so let’s bring it back for 2021!

My own romance works include the short story “A Special Present” in the holiday romance anthology Love Under the Mistletoe and the isekai rom-com visual novel Ascendant Hearts, available for PC and Switch.

I also wrote the script for the supernatural otome The Last Act, which is coming soon. You can check out its Steam page now!

And if mobile games are more your speed, I’ve written a number of romance visual novels for Genius, such as the recent Shisa – The Lost Souls (okay, so that one is horror/romance).

February will be filled with romance game reviews as I dive into my backlog, and of course you’ll have a chance to win prizes by leaving comments throughout the month!

2021’s Celebrating All Things Romantic Contest

This year’s prizes are:

  • Ascendant Hearts (gift sent through Steam)
  • Muv-Luv (gift sent through Steam)
  • A Kiss for the Petals – Remembering How We Met (gift sent through Steam)
  • LoveKami -Divinity Stage- (code)
  • LoveKami -Useless Goddess- (code)
  • If My Heart Had Wings (code)
  • $15 sent through PayPal
  • You pick a game for me to review!

If you pick the review prize, your chosen game must be something I either own or is easily obtainable, which you can discuss with me beforehand. It must be a single game, not a collection (although it can be part of a collection). I will start playing it in March.

Rules

  • No purchase is necessary.
  • Only comments made between February 1, 2021 at 1:00 PM EST and February 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM EST will be counted.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any blog post here = 1 point.
  • 1 non-spam, non-anonymous comment on any Celebrating All Things Romantic blog post = 2 points.
  • You must use an email address or website URL (or include another way of contacting you) in your comment so I can contact you if you win.
  • You must have at least 10 points at the end of the month to win.
  • The person with the most points will get their first pick of the prizes. The person with the second most points will pick second, and so on, until all prizes have been given out.
  • The winner will be contacted by March 2, 2021.

Sound good? Then let’s start playing some romance games!

2021 Writing Goals

 Writing  3 Responses »
Jan 062021
 

Once again, I’m ready to make a new list of writing goals for the upcoming year!

By 2022, I will:

  • Send out regular batches of queries for my novels in the querying stage.
  • Finish editing A Prince’s Price based on feedback.
  • Revise Mage’s Test.
  • Revise The Sunken Sapphire.
  • Write at least 1 new pulp fiction story and 3 additional short stories.
  • Increase traffic to my side websites 500+ visits per month.

That’s right, no book signing goals for this year – things are too uncertain for that to really be in my hands right now.

I hope to make good progress toward those editing goals, though. I started out by ranking my WIPs based on how marketable they seem and how extensive the required revisions will be and then prioritized them accordingly, which is how those three ended up at the top of the list. Ending the year with all three fully revised would be fantastic.

And of course, I’ll write a new novel draft in November for NaNoWriMo, as I do every year!

Do you have any writing goals for 2021? Let me know in the comments!

2020 Writing Goal Progress

 Writing  4 Responses »
Dec 282020
 

2020 is coming to a close, and I set certain writing goals for myself at the start of the year.

So how did it go, in this crazy year? Let’s take a look back at those goals…

  • Send out regular batches of queries for the novels I have in the querying stage.
  • Complete my current pulp fiction story and write at least one more pulp fiction story.

I met these two goals without a problem. I spent a lot of time querying agents about Penteract of Blood and The Nightbringer in particular. No success this year, but I did get one full request, even if it ultimately ended in rejection.

Meanwhile, I finished the pulp fiction story I had in progress at the start of the year and then wrote another one. I hope to share news about both of those stories in 2021!

  • Revise On An Island of Oaks and send it to a beta reader.
  • Edit The Sunken Sapphire.

On the other hand, I dropped the ball when it came to these goals, mainly because I underestimated how much work On An Island of Oaks needed. Instead of revising it and sending it to a beta reader, I nearly completely rewrote it twice, which left little time to work on revising any other novels.

I’m pleased with its current state now. It still needs more revisions, but not to the point of becoming next year’s major project again.

  • Write at least 3 more short stories.
  • Update my two side websites on at least a monthly basis.

These next two goals are in a gray area. If you count the previously-mentioned pulp fiction stories, I definitely wrote three short stories this year. If you don’t (and I can’t remember what I had in mind when I made the list), then I only wrote one new short story, but made some solid revisions to a few others.

(I also made notes for several new story ideas.)

As for the websites, I stayed fairly consistent with regular updates at Lovecraft Video Games, but my KH Theories updates were much more sporadic.

And that brings us to our final unfortunate goal…

  • Participate in an additional book signing/event.

Obviously this didn’t happen, because large in-person gatherings were not a thing this year. Here’s hoping for a better 2021.

Did you set any writing goals at the start of the year? How did you do? Let me know in the comments!

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