A funny thing happened on the way to the forum · 1:28am May 11th, 2014
Sorry for not being there for you. You know, to update stories and stuff. Unfortunately I had to put my writing on hold in order to focus on studying for my RHCE exam. On the plus side, I'm now RHCE certified. So I can do such things as setup an ftp server, create multiple virtual hosts to serve different web sites off a single web server, create a samba server, and more. All in two hours or less.
Anyway, I should be getting back to writing now, although I have been playing a bit of dark souls 2 as of late. That new wolfenstein is looking mighty attractive too. Brings back memories of being a kid with a 486 and a shareware version of wolfenstein 3d on 3 1/2 in floppies. Having to remember to bypass windows in the boot process and going straight to dos so that there would be enough memory free to run it.
Hopefully this new wolfenstein won't be as big a disappointment as duke nukem forever.
As far as an eta for the next update, due to major suckage, I'm going back and redoing portions of it. So expect it sometime between next weekend and before the sun burns out. Probably closer to the latter rather than the former.
WOOOHOOOO you passed way to go!! :DD
Between next week and when the sun burns out? Huh, and here I thought I was the only one who used that time frame for their writing.
And whoa whoa whoa whoa...major suckage? Who told you that? Lies. Lies!
Congratulations on passing your exam!
Dark Souls 2, eh? How is that? Many have been saying good things about it, but so far I've not tried it myself.
Pfffft. I'm willing to bet our human ingenuity will allow us to live for at least a few more years after the sun burns out. I'd set that as the upper limit. :P
Congratulations of the RHCE success! I still don't know what that it, but it seems it left you with a plethora of great abilities for your line of work
And jesus, how many rewrites now?
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Basically it means I'm decent at Red Hat Linux. Proficient enough to be considered a mid to senior level administrator.
As far as the number of rewrites, I don't keep track. That'd be too depressing. This has been the most difficult chapter to write so far. I think I've reached the bottom though, and am recognizing some hard truths that will allow me to bring it up to an adequate level. To be honest, I think the problem lies in the fact that I originally outlined/wrote this chapter lazily, seeing it only as filler before the grand finale where I could finally bow out. But that's like starting off with a Ford Edsel, and throwing more and more bondo at it hoping that it will somehow turn into a Mustang.
There are parts of this chapter that I think work well. They just need to be ironed out even more. However, there are at least two scenes that I haven't been happy with since I wrote them, so I'm going to remove them and come up with something better. Hopefully. I'm also removing Gimlet Lime from this chapter. I was trying for something entertaining with her, but it failed. On the whole, I need to streamline the chapter while adding more expression, more emotion, and less lazy writing. As with the rest of my writing, once I finally bring it up to some semblance of my standards, yes it will be cliched, but when all's said and done, hopefully it will be entertaining.
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Well, was trying to be optimistic. But I suppose a more realistic time frame would be between next weekend and the heat death of the universe. Thanks to the second law of thermodynamics, we'll probably be closer to the end of the universe than next weekend by the time I feel the next chapter is ready.
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So long as you're not easily frustrated, I highly recommend it. It's quite difficult, and if you begin to feel overconfident, you will die to a trash mob that you've killed dozens of times before. Personally I don't mind the continual dying so much. I just like running around with the biggest sword I can find (It looks like Guts' from Berserk) and beating things in the face with it.
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Thanks. I try to set realistic frames of reference. As for the reason for my outlook on the chapter, see above for why I think what I have sucks majorly in parts.
That sounds to me like my MO in Monster Hunter. I think that could be something I might like, so I guess I'll wait for the Summer Sales and give it a try.
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Well, I know that's what you think, and that you have reasons for it, but that was something I was never trying to convey when talking about the chapter, at all. And if that's the message you got, that parts of it suck, then I failed to properly communicate as an editor.
But the past is the past and it's done now, and you're rewriting--which I know is something I agreed with, but not because I thought the chapter stunk in anyway. Instead, I tried to place myself in the position of the author, and thought, "if this was my story, I would want my reviewer to be completely honest, so that I can have the best story I can possibly write, not just a good or decent one." The chapter was a good one (nothing sucky about it), but I thought a few things could be improved (nothing wrong with that--you're still a great writer). I could've just said it was fine enough and have you post it, but I knew that if a reviewer told me a story was "just fine" when they weren't super enthusiastic about certain things, I'd be rather unhappy. Assuming you would feel this way too, I dug my feet in and told you what I did, so that you could write the best chapter you possibly could. I wanted to respect your goals as a writer--one of which I'm assuming is to be the best writer you can be--and telling you "it's fine as it is, post it" wouldn't have been helping you do that.
That's why I tried to be completely honest, but in no way does that mean any part of it sucked. But rather, that it wasn't as good as I knew you could make it, and as your friend and editor, that's what I tried to say. Though obviously I failed in that department.