I was sleeping peacefully until at 2:30 in the night a telephone rang, delivery was going, which I almost forgot about. The order was sent on Fri 27th.

the courier says I will arrive in 5 minutes ... arrived in 15 minutes.

brought - carrots, sprinkled with rats, poorly packed paper towels, potatoes soaked in mice. Horror!

And before the pandemic, delivery was quite normal.

While disinfected everything, went to bed at 4 in the morning, woke up at 10.

I ordered alcohol through the application of an online store, it turned out to be a startup, in which hands grow out of the ass. In the call center, my call was dropped three times.

It is cloudy on the street now. There is little money left, I'm wondering. will they bring me alcohol or not? Alcohol is needed for disinfection.

We canceled the movement in the city of all private cars, public transport, so you can only walk or ride a bicycle if you have one. Bike prices suddenly jumped sharply.

Well, such a fun life. I made myself saffron water with crystalline sugar, I look out the window, it is raining, I want to sleep, I haven’t slept ... Quarantine in the city was announced until April 20.

To reach the bazaar you need to walk 5 km in one direction and 5 in the other. The pharmacy is 3.5 km one way and 3.5 km the other.

I have no words ... delivery prices, products, medicines soared 200-300 percent, the quality of service fell.

You look at the courier and think, damn it, he was already in thousands of places, the bandage was knocked down on his chin, his gloves were almost torn, his legs were slap, without socks ...

... well, the very mood to write three chapters.

At night, the disinfection machine arrived and processed the store, such a terrible smell. It even went through closed windows. Like a gas attack. Horrible smell. It started raining well. I ventilated the room for an hour, only this sweet, suffocating smell passed.

Saffron water can be drunk for another 27 days.

And so everything is perfect!

    Mochimoshu Guess it makes sense to me. Spew out crap into a draft then slowly add sense and logic with a clear head. Until something of a polished version is achieved.

    Generally, to edit, the whole story design needs to be in mind. But to write a first draft, you'd only need enough to pen a moment. Since all the other bits and pieces are yet to take shape.

    Gourmet_DAO This sounds like a mini-story or vlog. I can picture your day quite well somehow~

    Hmm... I wonder if I should make different rooms of the house into school, work, and play so that I move around more and get a change of “scenery” instead of being in the same immediate environment for everything I do I wonder if that’s part of the reason why I feel restless and even sick from being cooped up at home. Maybe with some “separation” between school, work, and play can I become more productive. It would be a good mini experiment.

      Chryiss This would be a psychological experiment. One could write a scientific article and publish it. Go to the conference and make a presentation! But I'm not a psychologist but an engineer :)

      Today I had a slight disruption due to night delivery and food delivery stupidity. In the end, I just cooked the soup myself, drank saffron water and now it's full relaxation!

      Chryiss This would be a psychological experiment. One could write a scientific article and publish it. Go to the conference and make a presentation! But I'm not a psychologist but an engineer :)

      Today I had a slight disruption due to night delivery and food delivery stupidity. In the end, I just cooked the soup myself, drank saffron water and now it's full relaxation!

        Chryiss The hidden message was intend to quote ~ 'Blank'.

        Main question: How did I end up getting a nickname😅? And yuppie? SMH 😅

          Veronica8 Naah, there's a big crack in the middle! If I just apply some force, it will break!

          Seems like the thief was for wheels and not for the board! The wheels were clearly removed before breaking the board!

          It was placed right beside the bin outside my house! The more I think about it, the more i feel like I'm somehow connected to the thief! Of course, who would intentionally keep it infront of my house! I lost it in skl so its someone I know! I need to on the sherlockian mode now!

          you've been goosed

            I'm aiming to finish TMS this weekend. So I can spend next week doing a full scale edit.

            Then it's on to my next project.

              I was just scrolling through the PS ranking(original) and I was surprised seeing those covers!

              Most of the covers have images which the author's maybe never owned! Even though most of them have added the cover doesn't belongs to me/credits to the owner statements but still those images clearly have legal copyright license! If by chance, the artist or the correspondent company is informed about it, I am curious who will bear the consequences, The webnovel or The author bc most of the works are contracted.

              PS: Sorry chris, I was too lazy to create a new thread so just ranted here 😶

                Well, I draw on the vector graphics myself, they are not so beautiful, not so attractive, but mine :)

                Mochimoshu It depends on who owns the copyright of the book.

                It's either WN or the Author. If it's contracted, it's WN who has to carry the consequence.

                That's why it pays to always hold a license for the image for commercial use, and what conditions of those licenses to meet.

                Fortunately, being online, it's just as easy to replace the image if that should ever happen. It's harder when the image is set to a hard copy book.

                  Veronica8 Hmm, I was talking about the contratcted ones actually!

                  One of my friend had to go through this Infringement process! She just used a photo of an unknown artist(he is was popular tho with his works) in her blog and had also followed the copyright policies Under this guidelines but still had to pay huge sum bc the artist defended that he never mentioned anywhere that his work can be used by some random strangers! It seemed like he was waiting for more ppl to use his works n later when his works went popular, he almost created a huge headlines in my town!

                  So when I caught up with her yday, this WN covers just got into my head!

                    Mochimoshu No worries, that’s exactly what this thread is for!

                    Interesting story though. Even though it’s his artwork, that’s seems devious to take advantage of a WN author’s popularity and success, but that’s another layer of risk I suppose when using copyrighted material. You don’t know if the author is waiting to jump on you for using their art for when you’re more successful. Or perhaps, they only realized it was being used when the writing got more popular. Either way, it’s interesting how both sides were ‘unethical’ in their own way, but you can’t exactly blame the artists for using timing to his advantage since it’s his work; even though, it does feel sorta wrong.

                      I ate pilaf! He was amazing! Wrote to the bottom of the chapter! in 1100 words. Now I'm trying to write another chapter.

                        Got up
                        Brushed
                        Wrote a chapter
                        Breakfast
                        Wrote a chapter
                        Bath
                        Lunch
                        Watched YouTube
                        Wrote a chapter
                        Talked with friend
                        Dinner

                        The story of my quarantined life

                          Chryiss Then can we use the arts on internet or not

                          What if we use it and remove it when we are about sign a contract. I mean we didn't use his work to earn money right

                            ReincarnatedSaint Good question. Some art, whether or not it’s used for commercial purpose, still cannot be used. It all depends on what the artist set the copyright as. You can search for images on Google, for instance, and set the usage settings to reuse with modification, non-commercial, commercial, etc. Some artists will say directly from the source whether or not it’s copyrighted. Usually, if there’s a watermark, you shouldn’t use it as that often indicates ownership. With that said, most of the time, if you modify the image so that it’s unrecognizable from the original, then you’re okay. Regardless, it’s always a risk to use someone else’s work, and it doesn’t depend simply on whether you use an image for commercial or non-commercial use.

                            It’s good habit to use royalty free or commercial use images from specific free image websites like pixbay. That site has high quality images. For more ‘artsy’ images such as characters, there are character design websites (kinda like a dress up game) where the artist allows you to use the final character you created. Sometimes, they specify it for avatar use only, or non-commercial only.

                              I got hacked on my twitter by a fellow user on Webnovel. Do people genuinely think this kind of thing is OK to do? He basically hacked into my account, just so he could make sure I followed him.

                              No offense, but that's kind of stalkerish if you ask me.

                              Is there a way to prevent this sort of thing on here? ( I reported his account of course. )

                                SarahWeaver6 Someone today told me the same thing happened to her!!! I was so worried to just imagine people going to such lengths. It seems it is a trend nowadays. People are so insecure and their doubts have a way to degenerate. I mean, stalkers always existed. However, with the internet, we have given stalkers a whole new means of trying to control our lives. Think about it, back in the days, they actually had to commit to stalking someone in real life. And obviously, that demanded as much organization as it was dangerous. You could easily get caught. But nowadays, you just learn a few hacking tricks off of YouTube or somewhere and you can access the most intimate information about someone's life.

                                So scary! I hope nothing of importance (personal info) was to be found on your Twitter. I hope Webnovel does something about this!!!

                                  Ahh, schools on spring break here (Easter Break), and I've finally caught up with grading papers.

                                  No more skype calls for a week. Admist taking my kids for a daily walk I might even find some time to write again.

                                    SarahWeaver6 Yikes, that’s something else. Crazy for sure! Good to see you back though! (: Hope that hacker-stalker got put in their place :x

                                    StenDuring Nice! And oof, skype calls... webex...zoom... google meets... heck I dislike them all now because of quarantine! bleckk, online courses, my bane =_=

                                    Have a good break with your family and writing!

                                      SarahWeaver6

                                      NingZuoYouXiaYu

                                      This is why everyone should use password generators secured with a strong password sentence only they know, stay away from unknown sites, don't download stuff outside official sources, and stop letting other people use your devices. And the most important thing: Use 2 Factor Authentication everywhere it is available. It might seem like a hassle in the beginning, but the pros outweigh the cons.

                                      On a better note: I finished page 28 or so of the graphic novel version. Only doing traditional for right now, mostly because I can't afford a drawing tablet.

                                        Today, someone told me one of my story arcs had somewhat did a rather accurate predictions on the current issues that happened these few weeks, and I have absolutely no idea about that when I wrote that arc happened ago, now I read it again, the similarity and accuracy are so scary...

                                        I feel that this is not the first time this kind of thing had happened, maybe I'm actually writing a book of prophecy... Haha.

                                          AI380 When you fully awaken your Prediction Superpower, you have to help me predict my future. :pray: Please!

                                          Chryiss advantage of WN's author popularity? She doesn't even know a world called WN exist😅.
                                          My friend is was a blogger! But she was a lil popular tho! Yeah, when i think about it again n again it seems more interesting! I actually end up defending both the sides as a two-sided lawyer😅

                                          Tomorrow, I'll officially write a finish for TMS.
                                          The end chapters won't be released until Saturday. After I've rearranged the table of contents. It'll give me time to perform last minute edits and checks before I close doors on the book.

                                            Just found out the use of auxiliary volume, if it's for chapters that are not related to the main chapters, then I have a whole pile of them that I don't know where should I upload them... Hehehe... The door to the new world had opened.😈

                                            a certain author needs to change her friend or help her friend improve. i'm pissed off.

                                              brooding as usual v.v and slightly annoyed

                                                I have successfully played myself and now I am trapped between a rock and a hard place (figuratively).

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