I want the choices to be there simply to make it more interactive for the readers while also adding meaningful details to the story.

Visual novels are a unique medium because they combine the visual parts of a story to help cut back on narration (instead of describing the setting which I struggle with I can just use a background so they see the setting right away.)

So my main focus will more so be on the art to handle the description narration and then all I need to do is add the dialogue.

With the choices these can also be used to handle narrations that might feel a bit out of place if you try to incorporate them in the story. Choices sometimes have good endings and bad endings and these can be used to incorporate the perks of omniscient third person point of view while still sticking to the first person point of view. The readers get a sneak peek at the possible dangers ahead while the main character and story POV and story plot remains intact.

I’m not sure if I described that well enough but that’s my goal when I try to make the choices interactive and meaningful for the readers. Now that we (the reader) know this choice leads to a dead end we can pick the other choice to lead the character to the right/safe path.

Now a way that us authors can have fun with that a little more is were we can show the readers the bad ending if they go that route and the readers lead the character to another path to avoid that but then us authors add in a rode block that adds tension forcing the characters to have to go to that bad ending path.

My  goal in doing that is to get the readers to feel that heart pounding tension because they know what lies ahead and tried to avoid it but are now forced to watch and see the outcome which of course everything turns out fine and the story continues because it’s know fun to have both choices lead to the bad ending cause then the story isn’t fun but just frustrating cause it didn’t go anywhere and all that stress was pointless. It’s kind of like a roller coaster ride but with stories. (I’m one of the authors that enjoys tormenting my characters and readers….that sounds a lot worse then what I intended but it’s so much fun! I can’t give a logical reason why ^^;)

Today marks the first day of Nanoreno and my current goal is to get my story outline done and then get started one the script. I hope to be able to do weekly documentations of this 30 day challenge. I also hope that I can finish this challenge because I’m a stay at home mom but I also homeschool my 3 children and we have state assessments coming up. Most of my free time will be taken up but the free time that I’m able to find for myself I can use to work on this story.

Good luck to all of you doing the challenge! Let’s have fun and learn new things!

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Edit: Oh my goodness! Ran was so kind to do such a kind review of my visual novel, you can go ahead and read up on it by following the link over at her website here: A Twist in time-Ran’s Review
Thank you so much Ran!! ;^;

*EDIT Again*: I was just contacted through lemmasoft and was happy to see that someone else kindly reviewed my game A Troll’s Fairy Tale! Here’s their blog where you can read the review:  Another Otome Diary
Thank you so much for taking your time out to review my game Apoeticalfriday!!! Q^Q I’m so happy that they’re such nice reviews too~

Whelp…..What can I say….YAYYYYYYY!!!!

I am so extremely happy and tried and relieved right now. To finally have finished this ridiculous challenge =_= Even in the middle of the end of all my work I started getting mad at myself for even doing this because I started to doubt that anyone would even like the story as much as Narah and I liked it. I’m sure a lot of my anger and frustration was coming from the lack of sleep and also the lack of me being able to spend time with my family.

During this whole time a lot of things kept popping up, we had a death in the family then more family drama on top of that and then later on I found out that the headaches that I was constantly having each day wasn’t normal and I’ve been diagnosed with migraines so I’ve had to work through pain, stress and tears to try to get everything done.
Now I know that I could have just stopped and took a breather but the world doesn’t pause just because you might be going through and end the end when everything is normal again I will be kicking myself for not having tried to get everything finished and with the way I am doing art helps me to keep my mind off the chaos around me and other times it doesn’t but this time around it really helped me not to think to much about my aunt that passed away and the family drama….but now that all  my work is done I can already feel myself getting emotional…..Anyways I guess right now the best thing to do is just talk more about the story and not the drama that happened while I worked on the story huh? ^^;

So with the story I wasn’t sure how many words are too many or too little so I just typed until I was satisfied with the length of the story and here are the statistics of the end results:

Statistics:

The game contains 3,435 dialogue blocks, containing 55,982 words and 285,567
characters, for an average of 16.3 words and 83 characters per block.

The game contains 3 menus, 105 images, and 17 screens.

After talking with Narah she told me that the number was actually pretty high; I guess that would explain the pain in my fingers and arm ^^; Anyhoo I was able to find the music easy enough since I already a pretty good idea of the style that I wanted and before I forget I should contact the author that really helped inspired me for my story. She’s from Wattpad and you can find her story that really helped open my eye’s over at this link : Jane Inkspill

I’m not sure if anyone has noticed but there is a secret meaning behind Acacia’s name. Can any of you guess? After I get some much needed rest then I will go ahead and start working on some extra cg’s that I wanted to add but ran out of time. I have 2 other cg’s per path waiting to be colored in but I’m tired and I’m sure a lot of you are tired of waiting so I hope you will still be able to enjoy it with the one cg’s for now!

Just as a side note, for those of you who might make suggestions to add an image gallery and such I sincerely ask you to hold off for a little while before making suggestions like me adding more to something or changing something. I really need to recharge and a lot has happened that I need to deal that I held off from dealing with while working on this so just give me a teeny-tinny, itty-bitty, more time….if that makes any sense @-@ I’m so tired right now I’m not quite sure how I’m even typing this post ^^;

Go ahead and look at the menu above and you can find it under the game section.

or if you don’t want to then feel free to download the links below.

*Window and Mac links are added. I’m still working on the all version.*

Mac Version

Windows Version

Linux Version

Here is the poll for those of you who have finished reading through the story. It ends in June and I plan on adding a special end scene to reveal the winners of the poll ^^ So please vote for those who are interested:

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