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.
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- Joined Mar 7, 2019
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. )
The problem is the one book I had here for a while, I took it down for edits. And focusing on the webcomic version.
Does anyone else do Supernatural Dystopia, with a slight touch of Cyberpunk and Gothic Romance?
Got my patreon page set up finally. Note sure why I thought verifying my identity with my number would be more difficult.
This will be good if I decide to move to Korea or Japan, and still want to get payed. I've had in mind possibly living in France and Japan for some time. But it might be feasible with patreon.
Back into writing, though I'm close to writing in foreign language. I'm not terribly sure whether I'll go back to writing English: absolutely in diaries and memoirs. But maybe not poetry or fiction. I guess I'll see.
I may need to change the name later, bot for now Nihoncaise is effectively like French (Japan), at the moment. Although it's a US language in my work.
How this will play out eventually, I'm not entirely sure. 14 Memrise levels so far.
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So on a happier note, I love Latin / Francophone music, and I like certain varieties of Asian music. So I'm doing a fictional constructed language (about 9 levels at the moment) that's basically what happens when you fuse French and Japanese.
Apparently it no longer sounds like Japanese or French, but closer to Portuguese. I might read over my language notes to see how that happened.
There are some major differences. Nonya replaces: No, Noa, and Non. Instead of Aussi, they say Amu astai. And there are a few other specifics.
Going to see how many poems in this I can write.
To ease some fears, it probably wont sound like Ricky Martin. More likely closer to a Quim Barreiros and Jin Oki troupe, with some Elsa singing. Closer to folk music.
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I'm immensely puzzled why some places rely on a Robot Ambassador. I've never seen an ambassador that so arbitrarily private messages people. If there was a way to actually turn on private messages there, I absolutely would.
It kind of reminds me of youtube in ways, when they started having a machine curate content rather than people. The limited exposure I get on wattpad doesn't make the stress of that thing worth it to be.
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Well I'm back to writing formally again. Social issues aside, I think I decided fiction writing is the best fit. Also staying away from social media sites that thrive on controversial and argument. I'm considering possibly getting into Yoga as well.
With places like Twitter: it's way to easy to forget that there are people on the other end, and not just some mindless robot spamming you the most current controversy of the day. I also decided to turn off notification from discord on the browser level. Of all websites, it's the most impossible to turn off notification on a chatroom by chatroom basis, so having to use the browser approach.
Admittingly I have a lot of discord chatroom just stacked up, and I may need to consider which ones I use the most, get rid of the rest. Especially ones that cause stress.
This month has been crazy. When you have things like breadtube being habited basically by ex right wing talking heads, writers who are legitimately leftist (and often also a minority) tend to get generally ignored. For those reason I'm slowly weening myself off of it, and getting back into regular writing again.
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I think the reason I have the most trouble, is on certain places (not here) people confuse reviews with bug reports. Ex. Someone finds an application killing bug that destroys their screen momentarily. You know who you tell about that? The software developers. I understand there is some overlap, but generally other users should know more about the app than just "this crashed my phone."
In that context, I have a general idea of what people mean when they say reviews should be about the book. Although I'm not sure if they mean in quite the same way I do.
On goodreads, there was an old controversy about people that were spamming one star reviews, because an author has a different political view. I'm an Anarcho-Communist--a comrade, political differences are going to happen. I have this feeling such people do not actually genuinely care about political differences, but like their power play.
Reviews are not a platform for censorship. If you have a political beef with someone, make an actual difference. Go and get bad laws overturned. I'm so done with rainbow capitalism. It's embarrassing as someone who is actually LGBT.
And of course they would blame goodreads for squelching that. That's how rainbow capitalists are.
It's one of the reasons I emphasize number 4 so much.
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great_gamer Exactly, and a lot of stuff I did in my early work, I wouldn't really do now.
Like I was a lot more of a political centrist (but still anarchist) at the point I wrote my first science fiction. I also had a lot of generally negative coping skills from surviving abuse.
Ex. I wouldn't so blatantly trash Damsels In Distress now, but I wouldn't encourage it either. I'd probably encourage them to save themselves, not necessarily have the MC that's a better female representation kill the damsel in distress.
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Is there a way to update readers about things like editing and stuff like that?
Ex. Currently I'm turning one of my works into an audiobook. The older the work, the more the editing needed generally.
A lot of new stuff I do is actually audiobook exclusive.
1, 4, and 5 generally. I don't generally care if someone dislike my work (reality is you're going to find a book you don't like.)
But slamming say a 1-2 star rating on a book for political differences, is not only petty, there should actually be an explicit rule against system gaming.
Dislike a book all you want, but don't cheat.
Veronica8 Thanks! Got some audio versions now.
Experimenting with oral dictation software for storytelling, while i recover from writer's block (for prose) and carpul tunnel.
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Trying to think of how to approach writing again: it's fairly common for me to take breaks between stories. I think the problem with Wattpad is places like that gives a wrong impression, that apparently listening to comments on there will make you sell more books. Then you get dissappointed and find you're not really selling that many books on Amazon.
Not saying comments aren't valuable. But they're not going to make or break someone's career, like places like that seem to think they will.
I'm finding the longer I take a break between stories, and analyze other comics and movies, the more critical I am of science fiction and fantasy, as--at least in the US--movies seem to follow a formula or pattern they know is safe, rather than what actually challenges society and changes expectations. Not to say that anime doesn't have that, I just notice it as much for some reason.
The "knight saves girl from dragon" formula I mean. That's one way to write a fantasy, but it absolutely is not the only way to write one. Even the mythic structure has limitations, that don't really carry over well to a modern or futuristic context.
Plus I was considering getting back into screenwriting and game design, while thinking about what my next novel is going to be.
Started continuing my really really old science fiction. I'll probably continue it on here and not this other place. Why publish your work on a place you'll be mistreated?
I just don't get the point.
Started work on a new short story, this time a Time Travel Apocalypse. I also peeked back into RPG Maker Web forums again ... well sense I have no nice words to say, I'll say nothing.
Refining the concept of Artificially Intelligent Trees as well.
Chryiss Trying to get a feel of SingularityNet. I both write science fiction and work on artificial intelligence. So a lot of what I experience in the field end up showing up in my work.
Taking a short break while the imposter syndrome melts away.