Category: Game Reviews

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Progress

Posted on by Kassandra Carrillo

I used to publish my blog posts on Fridays but now I think it would be better if I do this at the start of the week. That way, I can write about my progress during the week and over the weekend. However, with my schedule in choas, I don’t have a definite day. It has been difficult to get back into the habit of both writing a blog post and working on my stories.

While I have been revising my NaNoWriMo novel and Crimson Queen, a wattpad story I finished last year (?), it hasn’t been as much as I hoped. However, I will say that rushing a revision never did me any good. As long as I don’t stop, everything should be good.

On a happier side note, another one of my game reviews has been posted. You can find it here. While this isn’t on a weekly basis, at least I got a few articles out there. So far, that is good enough for me.

As long as I continue to go forward and, though it’s at a slow pace, I can say that I am working towards my goal. In the meantime, I just got to keep reading, revising, writing, and beta reading so I can help other improve and improve myself too. 

Posted in Game Reviews, Writing

It’s Here!

Posted on by Kassandra Carrillo

 

I know I have been AWOL for a few days but my review has been posted! You can read it here. It’s not the greatest review but I think it is a start. The page looks so pretty though with all the screenshots.

Basically, I’m a content writer for ANDi so, I’ll be playing games and reviewing them which also counts as writing. I think this would be a good for me to expand my horizon on more than just writing a blog or my own stories. At least I can say that I can put this down on my resume.

For the most part, I have been reading over stories for my beta readers and also helping a friend on his own story. It’s not like I’m ignoring my own stories but sometimes I need a change of pace and a break.

Speaking of breaks, as of next week, I’ll be going on my Christmas break so I won’t be blogging. One of those reasons is because, yes I need a break, and the other because my WiFi back home is virtually non-existent and it’ll be hard for me to get on the web. I’ll probably start back up the first week of January.

With that in mind,

Happy Holidays!

Posted in Game Reviews, Writing

Trial and Error

Posted on by Kassandra Carrillo

With everything winding down (at work), I’ve been able to get a few more things done. It’s mostly got to do with the fact that I’m not as tired from my day job like before. 

So, not only have I officially submitted my review for the game I mentioned earlier, I was welcomed aboard. I got my own wordpress login for the website and, although I have to complete my profile, I feel like I’m part of the team already.

On another note, there’s one story that I have always been going back to. At first, I wrote it as a short story twice. Each version has always been different. But the idea has always stayed with me. 

This is my second science fiction story that I have. Its futuristic in nature, plus mutated beasts, and a bit apocalyptic in nature. I have the characters created and the world. I do have most of the plot figured out and yet, the execution has always been odd. I’ve written it time and time again and it still doesn’t fit.
I think it’s because the story deals with heavy issues – that I believe to be heavy – and so I want to portray these issues correctly. My inability to do so has, somewhat, annoyed me and, which is why, the story hasn’t really gone anywhere.

Nevertheless, I managed to write about two pages of this story. It’s not the greatest and even now, I’m trying to convince myself that I just need to write and not worry about how it sounds like. You would think with NaNoWriMo I would be better at this but its still hard. 

In the meantime, I will be editing stories to try to appease my inner editor so she can let me write in peace.  

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Submission 

Posted on by Kassandra Carrillo

(Talking about my own work 😉 )

I’ve sent out my review for a mobile game. I’m not sure if I can say much about it but I won’t risk it. Honestly, I don’t know how well I did. I’ve never really had to review a mobile game before but it can’t be too different from reviewing a book, right? 

I did ask for criticism so that will definitely help out in the future. I’m hopeful. If it doesn’t work out, at least I can say I tried. That’s all anyone can say.

It’s not so bad really. This opportunity let’s me do two things that I like: playing games and writing. I couldn’t ask for more.