Thanks for your patience · 11:35am Mar 12th, 2013
The last two days have been my first chance in weeks to get some writing done.
Unfortunately, I spent both days in bed, sick as a dog...
I have the rest of Gravity planned out, just need the time to writie it. Soon I'll be done training employees and back to four day, 50 hour work weeks instead of my current five day, 65+ hours.
In cool news, I raised $1200 for the LPU relief league, most of which went to help little Kiki. I'm glad someone is gonna get some joy out of these cards and comics.
Been finalizing my convention plans for the year. Going to way more than I planned. I'll be at C2E2 and GenCon, both of which I never miss, but I'll also make it to the MLP Toy Fair, and TrotCon.
TrotCon is gonna be a blast. I'll be meeting and shacking up with some friends in the fandom I'm eager to meet in person. PavFeira, milesprower06, and Purple Tinker will be staying with me, and I'll be hosting panels with them. If you can make it to TrotCon, it should be worth it.
Oh and I guess I'm going to some reptile convention this weekend. Sounds neato, I guess. I once had a snake named Dr. Rockso...
Anywho, time for work. Hoping for a short day so I can get this Gravity draft done.
Also thanks for the positive response to Light Bulb. It was a silly, stupid story, but I'm glad people got a laugh out of it. On that note, several of my pals pressured me to send that one into EqD, even though I'm not a fan of their fanfiction selections or prereaders (no hate, Love and Tolerate, but I have my opinions). After waiting three and a half weeks, here's what they said.
Dear author or authors,
I regret to inform you that I cannot recommend your story be posted to Equestria Daily.
Look for errors in the following areas, but please do not consider this a comprehensive list of your errors:
Passive tense narration
Telling emotions instead of showing them
Out-of-character Celestia
Despite being a "comedy," there is very little in the way of comedic pacing (unless you count Celestia, queen of Equestria and god of the sun, throwing a temper tantrum, to be funny)
The whole premise of this is that... they don't understand how lamps work
This is your first strike of three; if you choose to revise your story to attempt for a second round, I suggest taking your story to Ponychan's /fic/.
Yeah. I don't think they read it either.
Wait wait, I knew it was you me PT and a fourth. The last member of our Wolf Pack is the author of LfaDFS? Oooooh boy, I am predicting shenanigans
I call dibs on being Bradley Cooper.
Umm. Coming from someone whose opinion of EQD is a fairly positive "hey, they do the best they can with what they're given"... this response is so blatantly "I personally did not find it to be funny. *moon*"
How many people do they have pre-read these stories? If it's any less than 5, I wouldn't call their opinions credible.
I expected as much from them, really. They mean well, but the site's gotten so big that it's no longer personal.
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As the one with the silliest facial hair I call Zach Galifianakis. Dont be surprised when I slip all you some rufies....
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Just one. Took them three weeks to do it lol. It's whatever to me. I don't see the big deal in getting featured.
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Total prereaders? Somewhere around a dozen active reviewers IIRC (though since it's all volunteer, it's not clear how many manhours per week that translates into). But yeah, each story that comes through usually only gets one set of eyes, sometimes two if the PR feels personal bias against it, but it sure doesn't look like that happened in this case.
ATM there appears to be 80-something stories in the queue, so yeah, taking weeks to make it through the queue sounds unfortunately understandable. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtvMttKpjm7udHZfLTdTd0lDcFFQRmpDMDdhUlJUQlE&single=true&gid=18&output=html
Those [CENSORED]. And I haven't even read it yet.