I learned how to meme the other day lol. I feel that many of you can probably relate to them :P. Anyway, I’m kinda disappointed that barely anyone commented on the post that asked for people’s opinions of what kinda art I should get… Oh well, it seems like very few people actually care about art, so I’ll just worry about it when the time comes.
I’ve been putting this off for a really long time… mainly because I can’t really decide on what I want lol. However, I’m making this post so that you guys(the readers) can help me choose.
Anything from cover art, to arc art, I want your opinions. Just write a comment, suggesting what you want or think I should do.
For example, in Arc 1, Michael and Inari are pretty much the only characters lol. Sarah makes a brief appearance, but it’s hard to tell if she’s just a random trash mob or someone of actual importance. Thus, a picture of an adorable Fennec Fox brutally ripping apart a rabbit carcass, could pass as an acceptable picture for Arc 1 lol. Either that or a picture of a bunch of blood-soaked rabbits devouring a human corpse roflmao.
Anyway, just write whatever comes to mind and once there are a decent amount of ideas, I’ll make some polls and have you guys vote on which ones you like the best.
I ended up staying awake way too long and now I’m finally going to sleep lol. I’ll edit/post chapter 61 when I wake up… That’s pretty much it. I’m too tired to think about anything more than sleep at the moment.
Okay so I’m gonna give a bit of a ‘disclaimer’ first. Not that anything is offensive or whatever, cause who cares about that at this point, right? Anyway, I just haven’t decided whether or not this will ‘definitely’ be the prologue to book 1 or not. Also, I wanted a bit of input regarding various things… Do you like the way I wrote the Prologue?
I do want to make HCOP into actual books eventually. However, I’m having a hard time deciding certain things. For example: Should I have each arc be considered a ‘chapter’ and each chapter be considered a ‘part’? Also, should I write ‘prologues’ like this one for each arc/super-chapter? In that case, there would be another prologue before what is currently chapter 13. If I do decide to do prologues for each arc/super-chapter, then should I write them from different character’s perspectives? Sarah appears for the first time around chapter 13ish, so I might do the next prologue from her perspective…
Also, what’s your opinion on the edited chapter 1? How much more editing does it need? Well, whatever… Oh, btw, the prologue is in the MC’s perspective rofl. This is not an autobiography lulz 😛 Continue reading
As a few of you may have noticed, I changed my theme lol. The reason is mainly ads. Okay, so for a while in January(At least half of the month) I was using one of these special ‘wordad themes’, which allow you to have like 1 or 2 extra ads on the page.
Since you don’t get the any sort of feedback until like 2 months later, you literally have no way to find out how much revenue or ad impressions you’re getting at the time that you’re getting them.
Now it’s statistics time, yay~… I had like 240k views in January, but only 100k ad impressions. I thought “Oh hey, I guess only like half the people didn’t have ad-block on?” and didn’t really think too much about it after that. 100,000 ad impressions was worth 114.44 dollars. It didn’t really seem like a lot, but it was better than nothing. So~, I decided to try and get more views the next two months in order to get more ad impressions.
For the entire month of February, I was back to my old theme, which only allowed 1 ad thingy, so I figured it might not get as many impressions, but it shouldn’t be too bad, right? Yeah, I was wrong lol. 225k views only gave me 15k ad impressions and here’s the funniest part, those 15k impressions were only worth 81 cents. Not even a single dollar QQ.
Now I know that depending on the ads and where the person viewing it is from, there is supposedly a ‘slight’ difference in what they’re worth but still… I figure it has to be the theme. That’s the biggest variable imo. So~, I’m pretty sure March is already doomed to be worth less than a dollar… Ugh, I just wish the stupid wordads would tell me before 2 months had already gone by.
Anyway, this is why ‘Donations‘ and Patreon are so important to me lol. Apparently, wordads are totally unreliable rofl.
In further news, today is actually Break Day, I think? Even if it isn’t, it’s Break Day now cause I’m fucking depressed… Well, I’m not actually depressed, but I am pretty pissed off. I’m still writing/editing etcetera, but chapter 52 will be posted in like idk, 24 hours?
BTW, I’m currently editing chapter 6 of “Immortal Soul”, so hopefully I’ll be able to finish editing the first book in April? Maybe I’ll be able to publish “Black Mithril” on Amazon during May? It’s been like a year and a half since I wrote this first volume or book of “Immortal Soul”, so everything is so messy… QQ.
Every now and then I feel like making non-chapter posts about various random things, for a myriad of miscellaneous reasons. Today’s randomness stems from my strange desire to share things with people, likely related to my obsessive compulsive disorder lol.
Anyway, the first bit of sharing has to do with Facebook. Pretty sure that most people have a FB account or use it in some capacity. I personally enjoy sharing adorable animal videos whenever I see them… but that doesn’t really have anything to do with what I’m talking about atm.
So, I found this group the other day called “WuxiaWorld Readers” and I decided to join. It’s pretty small right now, but I have a feeling that sooner or later it’s probably going to be relatively huge lol. I mean, if they actually advertised it on Novel Translations or even in the WW comments section, they could get a few thousand members in a day.
If you decide to join it, then you could probably find and add me on Facebook, and I accept pretty much any friend request. Just don’t troll me please, or post weird shit on my wall rofl.
Back to the main point that I was trying to make… Essentially, I’ve noticed that a lot of people are either ‘new’ to the whole translation-addiction thing. Either that, or they simply don’t know the biggest sources of crack-erm, I mean, ‘reading material’.
Now, even ‘I’ have not uncovered every single webnovel ever, because that’d be ridiculous lol. However, there are a few that I pay more attention to than others. Anyway, feel free to post links to various websites that ‘host many translations’ in the comments, since I know that I only named a few of them.
Another great resource to use is Aho-Updates and other similar sites. I only linked Aho-Updates, because they’re the only ones who have “Hardcore OP-ness” on there roflmao. Most of the other ones only deal with translated stories and websites that host translations.
I honestly don’t understand how to ‘do’ Twitter, but if you’re a Twitter-er, then you should ‘follow’ me lol: Mike777ac. Seriously, I only have like 31 followers as I’m making this post, so it’d be funny if there were a few thousand in a couple months… Yeah, I don’t really expect that, but who knows?
Last but not least, this is a link to my current ‘Favorite‘ songs. It changes a lot, but it’s basically the playlist on YouTube that I listen to all the time :P. At the moment, I really like the first song “The Evil King“, I have no idea why, but it’s really catchy for me.
Btw, the whole “Shameless Advertisement” thing is still a thing. If you want your website to be on the list, all you have to do is say so :P. It probably won’t get you that many views right now, but maybe one day it will? It’s kinda like gambling, except you have nothing to lose?
Chapter 45 will be coming out in about 46 hours from now. As some of you might have noticed, I was pretty sick this weekend and I was barely able to write or edit anything.
Ugh, I don’t even know. It’s gotta be the winter that’s getting to me? Well, it might have been a whole host of things that I’ve changed now. My toothpaste and toothbrush were both probably ‘bad’. I mean, I got a new thing of the same exact type of toothpaste and it tastes totally different from the old one… probably not a good sign. There was also a bunch of mold growing around where I was keeping the toothpaste, so who knows? My old toothbrush, I had that for like 8 months, and yeah, probably didn’t help.
Then there’s the fact that my room was like covered in cobwebs, spiders and dead cockroaches, along with more dust and lint that should ever accumulate in one place. I cleaned my room and hopefully that fixed some of the problem I was having with my sinuses.
However, the main thing is just that after I’ve been awake for around 12 hours, I start getting sick. Like, my sinuses go crazy, 10 times worse than they are normally, and it gets progressively worse the longer I stay awake. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any decongestants, so I couldn’t sleep and ended up staying awake for around… 38 hours or so. I did eventually manage to use ibuprofen, phenylephrine pills and one of those levmetamfetamine vapor inhalers to subdue my sinuses long enough to get some rest. That was like 2 days ago, but it’s something that happens sometimes…
Basically, I just need to stop staying up so long, because it just makes things so much worse lol. I always think “Ah, I can’t go to sleep yet, I need to finish the chapter!” and then I end up feeling like I’m gonna die and not actually finishing the chapter anyway, because my brain stops working properly rofl.
I guess the point in this post is just a warning to anyone out there who might be like me. Don’t damage your health in order to force yourself to write, it’s something that needs to come naturally.
Also, I might be addicted to Ibuprofen… Like, I find myself thinking “I should really just take some Ibuprofen.” all the time. Of course, that might be because I have cystic acne and I kinda need it to reduce the swelling… If I don’t, I get really bad headaches, have sinus problems, or just generally feel loads of agonizing pain. There’s also the fact that my parents are ‘practicing’ music right above my room, and I have really sensitive ears(Just the noise from my computer fan drives me insane) so you can imagine how I feel when there are like… huge monitors that can be used to play concerts, blasting for hours and hours. Fml, okay, I’m done QQing for now.
This is an actual break day, from writing, posting and maybe even reading… So for the past week or longer, my eyes have been all screwed up. Basically, it’s eye-strain, from staring at a computer screen all day every day. It’s not really surprising, and this is probably the third or fourth time I’ve had this problem. Continue reading
I think I’m going to start doing daily HCOP posts again. Starting with chapter 31 on Sunday, then there will be one a day… At least that’s what I’ll try to do lol. Continue reading
So yeah, over the years, I’ve basically become so desensitized to blood, gore and violence that I honestly can’t tell anymore: What is ‘mature’?
Honestly, I think that “The Vanilla God” isn’t very ‘mature’ in the sense that there is no profanity at all and there definitely won’t be any sexual content… at least not as far as I know.
I mean, in “Immortal Soul” I would downplay the sex and profanity to a certain extent, and the narrator of “Hardcore OP-ness” is pretty straightforward when it comes to describing what’s happening in the least vulgar way possible. However, people still complain about everything being too vulgar, gory or offensive in every way possible.
It seriously makes me wonder if any of those people had ever actually seen porn before lol. Have they ever read erotic novels? I honestly don’t think they have, because I did a few times and it was well… smut. That’s where the name comes from :P.
Maybe I’m too jaded nowadays? Anyway, from my perspective, “Immortal Soul” is PG-13 at most, “Hardcore OP-ness” is like R-ish idk. Every country and even different states have all kinds of ridiculous laws or restrictions.
Still, most people start having sex when they’re teenagers or younger; it’s just a fact lol. Yet, we aren’t supposed to watch porn until we’re adults roflmao. I personally think that people who watch porn from a very young age are less prone to having sex until they’re adults, simply because they aren’t nearly as sexually repressed.
Kids usually start cursing when they’re around 5-9 ‘because’ adults tell them that they aren’t allowed to do it lulz. It’s pretty much the same kind of thing with drugs, alcohol, etctera… I remember having friends in middle-school who were already addicted to nicotine or had become alcoholics.
People who watch violent movies/television shows, or play gory video-games generally don’t feel the primal urges for physical violence as much. Most people still do have them though… It’s just human nature and the more you try to repress your desires, the more ‘dangerous’ it becomes.
Anyway, my point is that I hate censorship and felt like complaining about it lol. Now, go ahead and argue with each other in the comments :).
Is “The Vanilla God” mature?
By the way, if you liked/read this story, can you vote-up on here? “Novel Translations” There are a lot of people who hate me on reddit and make it their mission that anything I post gets downvoted….
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