Stuff and Updates · 5:40am Feb 24th, 2014
So I just got around to watching "Simple Ways" and I'm adding it to my list of favorite episodes. There were just too many funny moments not to. But the real kicker (for me, at least) was the moral. Did it sound familiar to any one else?
In other news, I'm getting along on Kite. Odd hours of opportunity make writing a slow process, but I'm happy to say I'm about 60% through it. That doesn't count revising and editing, though. Good news I can give, however, is once it's drafted, editing, while not always easy, is quick so long as my reviewers hop on pop with the fervor that they always do. So you can expect the first chapter to roll out around the same time that I finish the first draft of the final chapter. Yay words!
Now I'm off to catch up on the next two episodes before bed so I don't feel as unproductive when I boot up my new set up of Skyrim. (Swapping to the PC version to play it with game-fixing mods (and loading times!) has breathed a new sense of hope into what was the biggest let down of a game I have ever experienced.)
As a side note, can you believe it's been more than two years since that game came out? Jeez. That was only a half a year after I joined the community. Time's a speedy little bugger, eh?
EDIT 1: Move aside, Show Stoppers, Filli Vanilli just swept gold by a mile!
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I'm actually going Skyre, DCO, Ultimate Combat, Frostfall, and Legendary difficulty (previously, Master allowed) for the fighting half of the game. I'm a glutton for punishment.
The last few episodes have been amazing, it's pretty hard for me to rank them.
Why did you tag Reading Rainbow to this blog? It appears to have nothing to do with the story.
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There is a link to Reading Rainbow in the final sentence because One Full Day's moral within it was almost identical to the episode's.
1870154 You wrote three sentences. Then there was a horizontal line and the rest of the blog was a personal blog that had nothing to do with the story. The horizontal line is what kills me. It's like you understood that the rest of the blog had absolutely nothing to do with the story you tagged. If that's the case why aren't these separate blogs?
You have three sentences about a topic that could be written about more if you really wanted to notify the people who favorited your story, and then three paragraphs about unrelated personal related blogging. This kind of stuff annoys me when it's an author I don't follow but have a favorited story for. I don't even favorite stories that often, but I've already unfavorited multiple stories because of authors doing this exact thing. This is why the whole tagging was removed in the first place before it got redone and put back in.
Yes, your blog is technically related to the story, but look at the percentage of the content that is.
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I'll give you the percentage argument. You are certainly correct on that. The reason that I had the line break was because, like you said, the bottom "half" was material not explicitly related to Reading Rainbow. The reason I had them in the same blog is because I like to do things all at once. So rather than posting two blogs in quick succession, all the things I wanted to say are in one, since they were all conceived at the same time.
The line break was there to differentiate between the story moral and the update/what-I'm-doing sections. I'm sorry you found the double post annoying, but it was split for the reasons you said you desire blogs being separate. The second half wasn't a required read (I assumed that would have come across on its own with the introduction clause "In other news") and was meant as a heads up on future writings and how soon they'll be available due to constraints and whatever else is going on in my life (which is tangentially related to the tag; since you liked Reading Rainbow, you may like the coming one. Though, I haven't used this train of logic before when tagging a story).
If it makes you feel better, this was the first blog I've tagged any published story in since the removal of the tagging system and I untagged Reading Rainbow (even though I know that won't "undo the damage").