Weekly Update 37
Hello everyone. This update is a little somber, but not for any serious reason. I am just feeling the absence of hits from agents. About now, someday soon, all of my queries will be too old. Then I will have had a rejection on all eighty-plus of them. It is very sad if I can be honest. Soon, this week hopefully, I will set out and find more agents to query. I am not giving up. Not yet. I even have a lead on a publisher, if I am desperate enough. Nothing against publishers, I just want to get an agent first.
It has been one calendar week with Winry as a second soul in my apartment and it has been a wild rollercoaster. I love having her, but the amount of stress she has induced on me is crazy. I thought I was ready for her but I was wrong. There was a day I felt very frustrated and depressed about all the stress but now I have taken time to relax (finally), and so far I have moved on from this minor lapse. I love having her and I can get used to getting up at 5:00 am to let her out. We are learning each other.
In other news, I have started to get back into a niche that I have had almost no experience in for years: fighting games. I used to get fighting games for their story (to the “gamers” reading this that should sound hilarious) and then trade them back into Game Stop after I beat it. I did this mainly with Mortal Kombat and Injustice, two series with rich stories (and the same publisher). But after years of passive interest, I have invested time in getting to understand the intricate and rewarding world of the Fighting Game Community, or “FCG.”
It started with the recent release of Street Fighter VI. I bought Street Fighter V on sale years ago but it felt like hitting my head against a wall when I tried to learn it. That whole experience made me think of when I got Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition for my Nintendo 3DS. Back then all I did was pick a character and try to beat the computer. I would lose because all I did was mash buttons, and then I would switch to the character I lost to and repeat the process until I was bored. SFV was the same but with the added frustration of being an adult who could understand how I was losing. SFVI is another story though. Literally. This time there is a story. It is silly but very newbie-friendly and I haven’t felt this motivated to learn a video game since seeing my first picture of Master Chief.
I am still learning, but I did manage to snag one victory in a casual game… one victory out of like fifteen. But that is the thing; even though I was losing very, very badly I felt like I knew why, and the game was approachable enough to get me to keep on playing. My favorite characters are Kimberly, JP, and Ryu by the way.
Ok. Time to get back to teaching, fighting, and waiting. See you all next week.
