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.
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HCOP Prologue and Edited Chapter 1
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
New Theme
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.
Break-Day
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.
Break-Day
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
Daily Posts
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
What Is Maturity?
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….
Immortal Soul?
Oh wow, I just realized how absurdly slow my reading speed is… It took me like 2 hours to read/edit this chapter. 6400 words is about 4.3 chapters of “Hardcore OP-ness” or “The Vanilla God”. Seriously, “The Forest of Corruption” was like 16,200 words long… How the hell did I do that and why? Ugh, when I eventually go back and edit “Immortal Soul” into actual books, I’m going to have to break a lot of the more ridiculously long chapters into smaller chapters lol.
I mean, I actually do have loads of ‘breaks’ within the chapter where I could have just been like “Yup, next chapter~!” but I didn’t. The reason was probably because I felt like… guilt? I thought that since I was taking so long to write the chapters, I should make them longer, which took more time, so it was pretty counter productive.
The moral of the story kids, is that when you’re writing, you shouldn’t let your leechers pressure you into doing things. People weren’t even donating to me or anything, I was just trying to get ephemeral and immaterial ‘ratings’ on Royalroad, which never really amounted to anything either way.
You should write a story that you love and enjoy. The more pressure, the harder it is to be creative :(. Anyway, hopefully this little speech will help some of you writers out there…
So yeah, time to finally post “Chapter 11: Envy“… There’s no link cause I’ve still gotta post it lol. It’ll take a few mins, but yeah, don’t expect “Chapter 12” any time soon :P.
(There actually is a link now roflmao.)
3,000,000 Site Views
Chapters 16-22 will be posted tonight, in about… 8 or so hours. Anyway, I was just checking the site views and noticed it finally reached 3 million, yay~!
Also, I wanted to update people on the schedule, because there kind of is one, maybe? Every Sunday, I should be posting about half of an Arc. I say ‘about’, because they’re 15 chapters long. So this Sunday, I’ll be posting 7 and next Sunday I’ll be posting 8.
I’ve been pretty screwed up with my hours, so every ‘day’ for me has actually been more like a day and a half… Ugh, I’ve been losing so much time lately. Anyway, the point is that my writing speed has been screwed up ever since last week or whenever it was that I had a whole week where I didn’t really sleep, couldn’t write, went to the hospital, then went to the doctors later on. Before that, my computer died, so I needed to replace it with my brother’s old computer… which didn’t work at first, but now it ‘kinda’ works.
Oh yeah, I totally forgot that before I had that horrible week, there was a whole week before I went to the hospital where I was in agony and couldn’t concentrate on writing properly. So, now that I’m done with my excuses and complaining, let’s talk about “The Vanilla God“.
I’m currently writing chapter 6… The speed it pretty slow because I’m ‘trying’ to focus mainly on “Hardcore OP-ness“. However, every day I usually have a few moments where I have inspiration or whatever for “The Vanilla God” and write it down.
I feel like, this same thing happened to me a year ago. In the summer and autumn I was writing at an absurd pace and then during the winter I was super burnt out and my speed dropped down really low. Maybe it’s the lack of vitamin D from the sun? Maybe it’s the fact that I need to constantly burn myself with a tiny space heater to keep from freezing to death? Or maybe it’s because I wrote so much in the summer/autumn and just fried my brain for the winter and spring roflmao. It’s a mystery…
By the way, I have this whole “Shameless Advertisement” page and barely anyone has asked me to shamelessly advertise their blog… Seriously, you just have to link me the site and tell me what to write as your description(Otherwise I’ll have to make something up myself, or I just won’t add a description lol.) so yeah, I know there are a lot of you guys and girls out there who have a site, just started out or have been around for a while.
Also, another interesting tid-bit of information… I placed my “The Vanilla God” folder inside of the “Hardcore OP-ness” folder, so if you ‘Donate‘, you can get access to both and read chapters before they’re edited and posted. I haven’t really done a ‘Donation‘ post in a long time, because I’ve been either on a pseudo break or sick, but oh well.
Anyway, I might post chapter 4-6 of “The Vanilla God” like, Wednesday-ish, because I’m still trying to build up a decent stockpile and my writing speed is pretty slow atm.
Happy Valentines Day
Yep, I’m still single and alone on Valentines Day, which is also my Birthday… Yay~, I’m 24 now and it’s totally irrelevant lol. Anyway, as a Valentines/Birthday present to ya’ll, I’ve decided to release three chapters of “The Vanilla God”.
It’s a story that I started working on a few days before I went to the hospital last week… Personally, I think it probably has a lot of potential, but I’d like to find out the hard way whether or not people actually like it rofl.
“The Vanilla God” is a first person xianxia-style story about the seemingly endlessly long life of a ‘Deity’ who didn’t do things the ‘easy way’ :P. There will be a decent amount of action later on, but for the moment, there’s only like 3 chapters so don’t expect a hardcore slaughter-fest the whole time.
Also, I’d like to put a disclaimer here… As far as I know, this story probably won’t have any sex or profanity at all roflmao. Kinda weird having a disclaimer to tell people that there isn’t going to be loads of cursing, orgies and necrophilia :). However, there will definitely be violence and gore, but to what degree, it’s kinda unknown.
Anyway~, let me know what you think and also if you notice any spelling or grammatical errors… I definitely edited it, but I couldn’t find any problems, which kinda worries me lol.
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