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More on Kickstarter

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Out of curiosity, I went out to find just how many Kickstarters I’ve backed.

Turns out seven. Here they are in order, with how they turned out for me:

  • Surprise! Four Secret Novels by Brandon Sanderson: I spent forty bucks on four E-Books and got them! Complete Success!
  • Armed Fantasia & Penny Blood: I spent ¥11,000.00/$80ish. These are video games done by two different companies. I was to get both digitally. There have been problems. Armed Fantasia seems to be getting towards the finish line. Penny Blood… not so much. The former is what I was really pulling for, so not too disappointed. Hope the Penny Blood guys can turn things around, but not expecting them to at this point.
  • Choose Cthulhu – Solitaire Gamebooks by Steve Jackson Games: I spent $48 on some good sized books. All are PDFs based on actual works of H. P. Lovecraft. Got them all. Haven’t read them all, but got them. Well done stuff. Complete Success!
  • Acquisitions Incorporated: The Series 2: A video series of people playing a RPG. Typical Cullen purchase. $26 spent. Might have the promised free novella. They seem to be having problems, too. These are the breaks.
  • Advanced Fighting Fantasy – Adventure Creation System: I spent £22.00/$29ish on rules to play Advanced Fighting Fantasy, a game I have, solo. I can’t make hide nor hare of anything while reading it. Must be getting old. Still, Complete Success!
  • Runa – turn-based fantasy game inspired by JRPG classics: Now these guys… these guys seem to have their act together. €45/$53ish and the game should come out this year. Constant updates. Very nice. Very professional.
  • Peasant: These are the guys that failed me. €35/$40ish down the drain. Some murmuring about it being a honest to goodness scam. Yikers! Failed, Failed, Failed.

So 3/7 out and out success, 2.5/7 still in the running (counting Penny Blood out, sorry guys), and 1.5/7 a disappointment. That doesn’t strike me as too bad.

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A Kickstarter (Not Mine) Has Died

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Back when I had money, I back several projects on Kickstarter. Today one of them gave up the ghost.

I find this sad. However, I gave them the money so they could try to succeed. They were a small group of people wanting to make something interesting, and I wanted to help. Which I did.

I do not regret giving them this chance.

I have another Kickstarter that’s been struggling (they seem near the finish line). A third that really seems to be going places. Two others that came through exactly as intended.

I never spent a lot on these guys. I do wish I had the money I gave them now that times are a little rougher. Still, it’s been interesting.

On Writing, Site Info

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One more year under the belt, and again, very little to show for it. Blogging ain’t the art it used to be, and with AI it’s only getting worse.

But this should be a place for me to practice said art.

So let’s change things up.

Every day (ish) I intend to look up a Writing Prompt. It could be from WordPress’s offerings. It could be me asking Grok or such like for an idea. It could be from one of the Writing Prompt Books I have. Any where, anything. I’ll take it and write let’s say 8,000 words.

Who knows. Maybe I’ll even get better at writing.

It’ll definitely make this more of a writing journal.

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Sal Buscema Passed Away

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I used to do obits on this site until it got too depressing for me. But some passings are too important not to note.

Sal Buscema is one such fella. He worked on the Incredible Hulk comic back when I was a kid. Thus his depiction of the Hulk is the one I always think of.

Well, when I don’t think of Lou Ferrigno that is.

He worked on a ton of comics I collected, including Spider-man and a cat named Rom Spaceknight. All of his people looked terminally ticked off. It was great.

Sad day.

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The State of Cull

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Last week a God damn mouse nibbled its way through one of my monitors’ power cable. One foot nudge later and I’m down to a single screen. As I’m used to two by this point, I found the situation less than optimal.

Thus the meager funds were depleted for a new one. As I was going spend happy, I bought a new printer. The monitor was to arrive Sunday, the printer near the end of the month.

To my delight, the monitor arrived Saturday. I spent the weekend fiddling with cables until I became sick of fiddling with cables. So I canceled my printer order from one place and made a new one at another. More expensive, but I pick it up tomorrow.

My intent is to hook up the printer and finish with messing with the cables. No doubt more headaches await on that score, but hey! My life.

Once that is done, I’m printing up what I have of the novel’s second draft for my Alpha readers. I’m working more on the second draft. I will finish this bad boy. Hopefully before Spring.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I have a buffer of two movies for the Sister Site. I have thoughts on one or two more. I need underscore italics bold all caps NEED to write at least one long review. I’m sick of the short ones.

And that’s today’s report. God, it’s good to give a full one.

The Writer Journal (and So Much More!) of Cullen M. M. Waters