@JonathanKonopka
this meeting went better than expected, lasted two hours. we might be getting a design for toys for our characters sooner or later! if all goes well, I may travel to various cons to advertise the project, sell toys and comic books and things, and see where it leads! going to USA again for PAX Seattle is also of interest, there's so many more conventions in USA than Canada, but I will admit I'm a bit worried about ICE
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my recent meeting with the producer alongside my animator friend went well, a fourth member may join soon, one who always wanted to make a web-based browser game!
Since I am busy making the SFX for the game, I tend to become burnt out, and can't really work on my literature very much. I will mostly do easier writing, such as expanding my guide on mixing and mastering, something I totally forgot about.
It's much easier explaining audio engineering than writing my fantasy stories, oddly enough!
@JonathanKonopka well I had the unfortunate experience of reading your work. I noticed many telltale signs and patterns of ai writing. I left some comments to help you out. My advice - use AI for your art and try to write without it. Then submit your work to the ai for editing and hand correct the mistakes. Or maybe take a class idk. Good luck bro. I’ll be surprised if you hit 1k like my first novel did in 2 months.
Secondly, if you do read it, you’ll see very quickly that it’s hand written. Heck you’ll see that by the description alone
OK, back from Vancouver, my dad's anginagraphy went well (which isn't a surgery, I had misinterpreted it). His cancer stats have also decreased. Overall, he should be alive for at least several more years, which is nice.
I am also returning to work next week, finally got a job to put me on forklift, skidsteer and, next month, on excavator. With my finances soon to be stable, I should be able to focus on writing more consistently. I am also hoping to continue audio SFX and music for my friend's animation project.
@AM-Prabeswar thanks! My dad's getting better so that's nice. Funnily enough, my new workplace has not put me on excavator yet, not have their trained me on forklift or skidsteer XD I think they were just trying to hire me anyway they could, seeing as I'm the only one doing most manual labour. Lifting pickup truck rims, radiators, and motors can be hard on the body, but oh well, still a job. If you're from the bottom, you stay there XD
@JonathanKonopka Congrats on the new job! I'm sorry to hear about your dad's cancer, but glad to hear his lab results are promising. Best wishes for him and your new work (and good luck on your projects, of course)!
OK, I'm gonna start re-posting my older stories in the coming months. I feel I have reached a point in my writing where I cannot learn any more, nor can I improve anything anywhere. since I've reached the climax of my writing abilities, I feel I can edit my older works one last time, and from there, I will appreciate what skills remain and make do with what little I have.
@Clockworks_Drag0n you're welcome! I took my stories off as I thought nobody was reading them, so wondered if i was just spamming Wattpad. I also wanted to feel free to edit them a bit. I've since concluded to have longer chapters, around three to five thousand words, which I feel is my preferred length. Sorry to hear of your issues! I never finished my college, I was never a good student XD wishing you the best vibes as you work through higher education! I couldn't do it myself, but if you can read my stories, you can get through college! Glad to hear I can have a positive impact! I don't think I've ever had more than one temporary reader, but I will definitely keep my stories around. I just wanna edit them some more, rework them into a more thorough product. I've been a bit busy working on my music and a short story contest. I will also be posting in substack (eventually) as I heard it's the best place to post stories. thanks again!
@JonathanKonopka I'm glad you reposted Skyhook (Cloudchild). I was wondering why it was taken down but I wasn't confident enough to ask. Also, since I've been really stressed out due to college and chronic health issues, I'm not here much, but I want you to know that I love your work and I still look forward to your story updates. You're one of the reasons why I still have Wattpad on my phone XD.
OK, finished updating chapters 1+2 for Exuvia Initiative, hopefully I cleared things up well enough. I will continued writing within a few days
oops, I noticed a mistake. In Chapter 2 of the Exuvia Initiative, I described Ollorix's forehead being split by a mattock, though I meant shinbone. I have since fixed this mistake.
Jojooooo! Don’t mind the notification of me “just” giving you a follow back, haha. I only had the opportunity to check Wattpad & was reading your post when my phone almost slipped out from my hand & I accidentally pressed unfollowed. Sorry! Oh, and I’ll be writing to you soon enough. Sorry for being away for so long :(
Oh hello, there's a familiar username! Long time no see, hope you're doing well in this time of Covid.
@Amanda-Mae ha! Good point! One story I heard happened to one of the other guards, who said some crazy guy kept standing near her while holding an axe, pretending to chop firewood all the time but often would blankly stare at people. The worst they did to me was shine flashlights into my eyes whenever I drove around the corner of their makeshift camp, though I totally see why employees would be nervous from axe-wielding stalkers. The town of Houston in BC apparently was having lots of drug smuggling, apparently lots of fetanyl goes through there for some reason. Canada is known for being a safe, nice country but up north lots of crazy things happen! Oh, and I forgot to say, but the dog they had run in front of my vehicle wasn't hit. The strangest incident I saw was when one of the peoples' cars sped up the mountain road, but flipped over on their roof. For some reason, the group kept trying to drive into the work camp that was overrun with mice, so it was being replaced by another work camp. Beyond the inactive work camp was where the company kept explosives, which the strange people kept trying to get to and the police kept arresting them for it. I do recall some licence plates being from Washington, not sure why they were here in Canada. But ya, simply put, I'm glad I don't work there anymore!
@JonathanKonopka Wow, that sounds horrible... I don't understand what their motivation would even be to do stuff like that. Glad it didn't spiral any worse than that, at least. And who knows, maybe it can serve as inspiration for a horror/thriller novel one day XD
@Amanda-Mae oh, i didn't expect this! a nice surprise. but yes, long story short, almost two years ago, i worked as a security guard in an semi-rural area (west of Prince George, BC) that had a bad reputation. while on-duty, this one car kept following me, the people inside recording me with a rather big camera. over the course of some weeks, one of the people's trucks would speed in front of my vehicle then slam their brakes, trying to get me to rearend them long the winter roads. One time, while I drove downhill an icy road, they (I assume the same people) got their dog to run in front of my vehicle. They did crazy things like that. Anyways, I eventually learnt that these strange people also did lots of online harassment, targeting peoples' family, friends, etc. Since I was targeted by them, I didn't want to risk involving anyone else, so I deleted all my social media and Wattpad and a few other things, just to be safe. there's lots of crazy real-life stories of people having their lives ruined from online harassment, and I just didnt want to risk that happening. Chances are it never would, but why take risks? it's been over a year since those incidents so things seem to be back to normal! overall, nothing seems to have spread, either, so it looks like things will stay that way. I still say and do stupid things but looks like nothing's going bad, yet XD but ya, I have lots to catch up on XD