DannisWrites

I did it!! I finished my book! Didn't finish it in April as I planned, but I suppose May 4th is a good day to finish. I also finished the Royal Road Writathon, so I'm happy. Bess' Plants will be complete on May 9 here, chapters are all scheduled here and on RR. May the Fourth Be With You, all my fellow Star Wars fans!

DannisWrites

I did it!! I finished my book! Didn't finish it in April as I planned, but I suppose May 4th is a good day to finish. I also finished the Royal Road Writathon, so I'm happy. Bess' Plants will be complete on May 9 here, chapters are all scheduled here and on RR. May the Fourth Be With You, all my fellow Star Wars fans!

DannisWrites

Windows 11 finally got my goat! I put off updates for a week. I was having disappearing files and empty folders on my hard drive. Several posts online about this week's Windows Update being a drive-killer spooked me! So I decided it might be a good time to move to Linux. But, after the Writathon!! Then, that fateful night, I shut down my computer only to confront The Wheel Of Death!! Yikes! Windows ignored my deferral and Started Windows Update Anyway!! So, that was the last straw. Hard drive problems and a drive killer update? Not me, Buddy! I had already installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on a flash drive. No more will I be blasted by ads and my privacy breached, at least in my home. I did it! I installed Linux! And, what's more, I'm enjoying the quiet. No address bar on my toolbar for me to accidentally type in or have messages distract me. No more disappearing files!! Just an operating system that works. LibreOffice? Native Linux. Works as if I never left Windows. GIMP that I use to layer my book covers? Linux native. Chrome browser? I can even use that and get Gemini to help me search, with sources. Note that you have to get Chrome from their website. Chromium doesn't have Gemini and I rather like it. One of the few AIs that gives you sources that you can click on and read more. Yeah.  The downside? I won't finish this book this month. I might, however, finish the Writathon in time if I hustle. I have until May 5! So, wish me luck, and good luck to all of you doing 30DC or 8CC or Royal Road Writathon. Now all I have to do is set up my VM so I can run Windows programs I can't do without like DAZ Studio or VUE 2024. Stay tuned for updates on Too Many Channels on Substack. Link in my bio. Take care!

DannisWrites

Bless your heart! I'm very happy with my installation but I still need to install my VM to be able to run DAZ Studio and VUE 2024 and play some of my fave games. I'll post how that goes LOL. It was pretty easy with help from AI.
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SeraDrake

@DannisWrites - Hmm. I may switch over myself. I'm fed up with Windows.
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DannisWrites

Well, Folks, beware! AI has hit Wattpad with a vengeance. I'm now getting flattering comments on my work, only to engage with these bots and then they hit me up with personal contact and requests for me to let them 'improve my work' or create artwork, get me reviews, whatever. For a price. I'm totally disgusted. Our platform has been hijacked. Got any ideas how to thwart these bots?! Honestly, I'm upset!

AmeliaWellis

@DannisWrites it happens! Just make sure not to do it anymore.
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DannisWrites

@MiaWellis Thanks! Unfortunately I did respond to a couple before they hit me up for services. Ugh!
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DannisWrites

@YvanUng Glad they haven't found you yet. Take care!
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DannisWrites

This month I am working on my book in a month project. I just created Bess' Plants, and uploaded 5 chapters with 7725 words that won't count on Royal Road for the 2026 Spring Writathon which begins Apr 5, or the @JustWriteIt Mar-Apr 8 Chapter Challenge or the 30 Day Challenge. I can use a pre-existing story for all of these. For Writathon, I'll need 55,555 new words. 8CC will need 8 new chapters totaling 12k new words.  30DC has word count levels for the new words, and if I complete the book this month, I'll get a special sticker. Writathon doesn't end until 5 weeks. So, I'll be very busy this month and posting my progress on TrackBear. Wish me luck!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/409646263-bess%27-plants

DannisWrites

This month I am working on my book in a month project. I just created Bess' Plants, and uploaded 5 chapters with 7725 words that won't count on Royal Road for the 2026 Spring Writathon which begins Apr 5, or the @JustWriteIt Mar-Apr 8 Chapter Challenge or the 30 Day Challenge. I can use a pre-existing story for all of these. For Writathon, I'll need 55,555 new words. 8CC will need 8 new chapters totaling 12k new words.  30DC has word count levels for the new words, and if I complete the book this month, I'll get a special sticker. Writathon doesn't end until 5 weeks. So, I'll be very busy this month and posting my progress on TrackBear. Wish me luck!
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/409646263-bess%27-plants
          
          
          I wrote about the livestream I did about choosing my book here
          https://open.substack.com/pub/toomanychannels/p/bess-plants-is-my-newest-book-project

DannisWrites

I just updated all my book covers. I'm also putting a new cover on my novella, Dad's Cabin, which I will put on here later from Amazon Kindle.
          
          Alma's dad is gone, and all she wants is what he left behind.
          
          But the rutted road to his cabin has other plans. Stuck in the mud, she finds Joe — a Zheien diplomat, badly wounded, with Elshar slavers closing in. His only chance is Molly's Ship at the Atlanta Spaceport. Three hours away. And he has to pass as Earthan to survive the trip.
          
          One broken car. One truck that barely runs. Slavers on their tail. A frantic stop for emergency healing. And at the spaceport gates, Alma has to leave behind everything her father owned — everything she came for.
          
          Joe makes it to the ship and he's really Perren, Diplomat Of Kin Para. But healing his body is the easy part. His memories are confused. He can't talk about his home, his people, or the father he lost — a grief that mirrors Alma's own. They help each other in ways neither expected. But when Perren's mind links with Alma's, a marriage to save their lives becomes something far more real.
          
          Two broken people. One long road to healing. And a love neither saw coming.
          
          Dad's Cabin is a young adult science fiction novella about grief, survival, and finding love in the most unexpected places.
          It was at this rank last week, but this one it's dropped a few slots. #Amazon #novella #ShortReads #youngadult #sciencefiction
          https://open.substack.com/pub/toomanychannels/p/dads-cabin-is-ranked-1044-in-90-minute?r=1gxv4v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true