At this point, I don't know whether to be insulted or angry. I apologize, but I'm too upset right now to post the Version Vibrant updates I have continued to collect. Right now, I can't even say if I'll continue posting Version Vibrant updates here, I just don't know. I don't think it's right that I should penalize my regular readers for someone else being less than considerate about the time and energy it took to make and maintain that breakdown in the previous posts. But at the same time, I can't be open and honest with "all" the details if I'm not given the courtesy of being included in getting "all" the details to be able to communicate them to you. If you want to stomach it, the pretentious podacters seem to be more valuable to getting the Version Vibbrant word out there than the person who's spent hours if not days collecting links and information to post in a coherent fashion before it was considered "cool".
I had planned on having some information about pyrography commissions posted this time around, but I'm still ironing out some kinks in the financial department. I have zero respect for PayPal so I will absolutely not use them as a payment method (and no serious business does anymore either). That puts me in a situation that I need to figure out before I can really get into the other details. I hope to have something figured out by next post, but no promises.
A little piece I had to share with everyone. I may be in a bad mood at the moment, but still there are things that amuse me none-the-less.
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timechaser:
Yeah, and the ones that were funniest to me were the not-so-obvious ones.
I thought the same thing. I hate being without power.
Well, yes and no. I found information that indicated "young adult" books run an average of 40,000-60,000 words. How accurate that is, I don't know, but it's a benchmark I can go on at any rate. If I had other stories I hadn't posted online to go with it, I'd easily consider doing a collection, but I think that would make it even harder to sell cause I don't think collected shorts work very well as a first publication, but I'll keep that in mind as well. It's not easy and I'm still a long way from reaching my goal, I may miss my End of January deadline to have it done.
whtdragon:
I've never heard of those, but the description almost sounds like a plum tree of some kind. Don't quote me on that, I'm a horrible botanist.
Yeah, mine are probably aggravated by the bed I have, and I know when I'm annoyed or tense, the shoulder gets worse too. I have to stick tosome home remedies for the time being, but hopefully that will be remedied soon.
Up till now I've done, at least I think, a [Censored] fine job of getting the information out there. When Adam's bits and pieces about it were generating more questions than answers, I started putting things together for people here. Of course we all have to wait to see what it will really be like.
A bit latefor yoru birthday, but how about a shameless plug as a belated birthday gift?
Getting the novel up to par won't be too hard, I've got some plans in place that I'm writing out to accomplish that. Hopefully I can make it with those.
GIDRA:
Nice to see you back.
There's already a sore spot on the main page, they didn't have a single "news" post this week at all. There's been site updates, and Otaku Attractions and podcasts and Otaku Opinion Polls, but no serious anime/manga news. That's how good Gia was, she contributed a lot to the news here.
These were dark mulberries, a purple color. The berries were a problem so were the birds that ate them. Two lovely kinds of mess that aren't pleasant to clean up. Sounds like grafting or something of that nature, would be neat to see.
I hear that.
Thanks.
Well, I know I'm a bit stubborn that way so I'll stick with it and see it through. I will self-publish if it comes down to it, though I don't want to have to do that.
Magnus Lensherr:
I don't mind doctors so much, I just can't afford them so I'm between a rock and a hard place. Still haven't been able to go, and probably won't be able to for a while.
In all honesty, I didn't know I could write 30,000 words (which was about what my manuscript had before), so if I can do that, I can add 10,000 to it easily. It's a matter of looking at my style and adding little details and scenes to the story to fill out some holes. I'f I'm lucky, I'll overshoot my mark for word count and that will be good for me.
I know I'll try out the Spaces thing, aside from that, I won't know how I'll handle it till I'm using it.
Yensid:
I'll have to do that, but I don't think I have a school locally with that kind of class. I will seriously look into it though, it would be worth it.
It's not only crazy, it's insane. I wish I had some info for you on the interface, but I don't think I'm in the right social circles to get that kind of information so all I can do is wait with you on that one. Nice to hear that we're not the only ones who used MyO as a springboard to launch our efforts to learn something useful technologically.
There's stuff on myspace that I'd probably consider joining up there for, but I'm still not on there yet. Still clinging to my "no myspace" mentality.
Voice recognition is tough, I just have the built-in MS SAPI, so it's really bad when I go to use it, even after al lthe training I've done. Having to hop on the Spaces bandwagon to get all of the features kind of sucks to me too, but it's the way it is. Adam's seeing nothing good in MyO anymore which is a shame because there's so much potential here.
AngelBest Dream:
I wasn't aware that I had such a potent roar. I hope this one I let out today sends the right message.
Right now I'm assigning that visit a "fluke" rating since it was a one time "seemingly" random event. I'm still too far out of radar range to be seen as something with potential I guess.
I'll just have to wait and see how I handle VV as well. It would be nice to have more advanced search features though.
No, they won't, even if they wanted to try an HTML MyO site, they won't be able to do it. New accounts that are set up on VV will not have a MyO account, and MyO will stop accepting new accounts when VV is implemented. That's the way I understand it anyway. Those of us who are here will remain here (and have our VV account as well), but we won't get any new members on MyO.
It's not as easy as it sounds to be up here.
Your warning came a little late for me, I got knocked hard tonight, but it's something I'll keep in mind as I continue to do my scouting on this VV thing.
Mamma Vash:
Naturally, I'll be announcing it's publication here first anyway so I'll keep you all up to date on the process every step of the way.
Yeah, I've got mixed feelings about VV too, but we won't know anything for sure about it till we actually see it in action.
kitbug69:
Use your judgement on how to handle that whole thing, and you're very welcome for anythijng I've offered that helped. I have been trying my hardest to be as helpful as I can with what I know about it, and let me tell you all I know is what any regular member could find out. There are others in a select "core" who know more, but I'm not among them.
Again my apologies for cutting off the VV updates this time around, there's a lot of stuff going through my mind right now and I"m feeling, well to borrow the line of one of my few favorite English language songs "like and old pair of shoes" relating to this whole VV thing. If I feel better nex week, I'll have a nice update posted if Version Vibrant isn't out already.
twilight samurai:
It has been a while, but then again we get busy and distracted so that's all right. Come around when you can, that's all I expect of anyone.
We celebrated the other day, it's hard to really do stuff on a certain day when you're the only one in the house who doesn't work. Celebrations are pushed down around here all the time and that's okay.
It does sound tough, but I added close to 1,000 in just edits alone, the other 1,000 I added is split between two short scene additions I put in to make the story flow a little better anyway. I've got two major scenes left to add as well as a recompiling of the ending to make it fit the new material so I think getting 8,000 more words won't be too hard. I'll certainly keep that in mind, though I think the market for my novel will kind of help without needing to go that route.
Actually Adam missed his unannounced launch date of Jan 22, he said so in a recent blog post. He's still shooting for late Jan or early Feb from what I can recall. Other than that, I don't know. I'm not sure if I'll like it or not either, but I will give it a try none-the-less.
Thanks, and count on it, I don't feel that old ever.
Shonigoneyes93:
Welcome back, long time no see.
I think the new "Spaces" thing is suppose to draw more attnetion to the blogging in Version Vibrant. I can't say for sure till I see the layout and structure of the system.
Sap, bird bombs, and berries all plague my family, at leas we have two less things to worry about on that front.
40,000 words isn't too shabby, that's what I'm shooting for with this one. It's apparently an average length for certain story markets and mine happens to be in thqat market. i don't think I could write an 80,000-100,000 word novel though, that would be tough.
As near as I can tell, MyOtaku is getting nothing at all from the upgrades, save maybe permanent "ads free" status, and the day MyO goes offline is the day I leave whatever's left of the site permanently. I joined here for the MyOtaku community, not some little knock-offdA/MySpace/Livejournal wannabe site. If I want those, I'll join up there (I'll point out I'm already on dA for my nature photos).
Not sure what you mean by groups, but I think that was covered by the "many to many" blogging info about being able to allow others "posting privilges" in one of your spaces. that would effectively allow groups to post to one space probably more efficiently than the current structure is here. If there's more specific support you had in mind, I'm not sure I can answer that, I can only go by what's public to all members here in terms of information.
I have few doubts about it once I get it up to par. I hope it own't take me long to get it into print, cause I do own TheO a couple autographed copies for contest prizes, I promised that much, and I intend to deliver on it. I'll take all the luck I can get, so thank you.
Shireishou:
It's great to see you back here,. Don't worry yourself over not updating often, you do it when you can.
Version Vibrant will surely be a big change from what I'm used to on TheO, I've seen it change once before (I came in toward the end of the "Version Next" era shown in the trailer). It's always rough going into unknown territory, but I think we'll be all right. My O will still be around, but it won't get the attention that it gets now.
