Sunday, March 29, 2015
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Progress on It's Not the Fall That Kills You, should be done tomorrow. It's been a little rough getting back into the swing of it, but I'm keeping my quota for the most part. MGQ Paradox makes a very convincing distraction.
Still thinking about what to do after this story is finished.
Not much to say this week. Till next time.
Mo: 479 words
Tu: 0
We: 901 words
Th: 657 words
Fri: 500 words
Sat: 701 words
Sun: 460 words
Still thinking about what to do after this story is finished.
Not much to say this week. Till next time.
Mo: 479 words
Tu: 0
We: 901 words
Th: 657 words
Fri: 500 words
Sat: 701 words
Sun: 460 words
Sunday, March 15, 2015
This week I finished up Beyond the End 8/Monkue Nabe. Took 10 days in all, better than I expected. You can find the finished translation on sadpanda.
I mentioned some future ideas for stories in last week's post, but those are still a little ways off. First, I need to finish up It's Not the Fall That Kills You. I'll also be writing more of the dragongirl short every now and then when I have time and ideas. I'm not entirely sure how long Not the Fall will end up being. My original idea was to keep it at 12 chapters, and based on my history of predicting length, it'll probably end up closer to 15 or 16. Hopefully I can release a chapter ever weekend, but I'm not promising anything. It'll be done when it's done.
After that, well, I'm still most interested in the futuristic researcher story idea, and it still seems feasible, but I can't say anything for sure. I'll keep you updated as I figure things out.
Mo: 4 pages
Tu: 3 pages
We: 3 pages
Th: 8 pages
Fri: 5 pages
Sat: 11 pages
Sun: -
I mentioned some future ideas for stories in last week's post, but those are still a little ways off. First, I need to finish up It's Not the Fall That Kills You. I'll also be writing more of the dragongirl short every now and then when I have time and ideas. I'm not entirely sure how long Not the Fall will end up being. My original idea was to keep it at 12 chapters, and based on my history of predicting length, it'll probably end up closer to 15 or 16. Hopefully I can release a chapter ever weekend, but I'm not promising anything. It'll be done when it's done.
After that, well, I'm still most interested in the futuristic researcher story idea, and it still seems feasible, but I can't say anything for sure. I'll keep you updated as I figure things out.
Mo: 4 pages
Tu: 3 pages
We: 3 pages
Th: 8 pages
Fri: 5 pages
Sat: 11 pages
Sun: -
Sunday, March 8, 2015
First off, progress: Finished 32 pages of translation since last post. Haven't written anything. If you haven't already, check out my previous post with links to my newest writings and the pictures I commissioned for them. There's also info about artists if you're thinking about commissioning something yourself.
As far as when I'll finish BTE8, I'm not sure. I'm aiming for next Saturday, but depending on how much I get done today it might be earlier. I would definitely say not before Wednesday.
Since I've finally made some real progress with writing in finishing P&L and posting Marilith's Massage along with it, I've given more thought to what I'm going to write next. As I said before, It's Not the Fall will come right after I'm done with this translation, but I've also been throwing around ideas of what my next writing project might be. I like succubi and lilim and I haven't had a chance to write them yet, so I want to do something with them. Here are my ideas at the moment:
- A story set in the MGE world, involving a man who tries and fails miserably to get the attention of a lilim and is forced to work on himself in order to be seen as interesting. He's helped in this by an oddly invincible middle-aged man and a lilim that tries her best to remain obscure to the rest of the world. I was thinking the lilim the man is trying to get the attention of is Mari since 1) I find her interesting and 2) she fits the role quite well, a boisterous and powerful lilim who cares more about exploring the world than taking it over. The problem with this idea, however, is that the story I'm thinking of would have to be of some length, but I don't have the ammunition to fill out a story of the length I have in mind, if that makes sense. If it doesn't: I basically have a core concept that I find interesting but I don't know how to flesh out all the details. This story would require the most work to figure out before I could start writing it.
- A contemporary fiction on a much smaller scale. A man is attacked by a succubus in the depths of night and things go as you would usually expect a succubus attack to go until the point where the succubus is ready to finish up. She keeps draining the man, yet no matter how much she pulls from him, he doesn't die, to the confusion of both participants. The rest of the story is about the succubus stalking the man, finding myriad ways to seduce or trick him into sex than draining him beyond what should kill him. The man has to figure out how to either escape her neverending hunting or convince her to stop, at the same time finding out why the hell her attacks don't kill him.
- Finally, the most ambitious idea I have and the one I want to do most. At its core, it's a tale about a scientist, one of many sent out into the reaches of space to find a way to help humanity survive a disease of infertility. He comes across a planet filled with monstergirls and takes them up into his ship, one at a time, to study them. He's surprised to find how human-like they are and their mating compatibility, but is also driven to find out why. It wouldn't be a typical chapter-by-chapter format. Rather, I'd release logs and journals about each monstergirl as he studies them. These would be much shorter (1-2k words) than my typical chapters (4-6k words) but released more frequently. In addition, there would be a main storyline progressed by less-regular personal journal updates where the man talks about how things are going, any communication with home base, and his personal thoughts on the situation. These would progress the core story, and every now and then something unexpected would happen. I have several ideas for the "unexpected", one being that one of the monsters corrupts the AI on the ship into becoming curious about the scientist in exactly the way you're thinking. I don't want to go into any more of these ideas and spoil the surprise should I ever get around to this story.
That's just the cool part, though. There are two big challenges I think that would come with this story. First, the presentation. I think this would ideally be it's own website, like a wiki, with the most recent main story journal on the front page and links to the monstergirls already studied. I would have to make it so the monstergirl study logs contain practically no reference to the story progression so people could read the logs in whatever order they want, or divvy up the logs into tiers of some sort based on significant events in the main story. I'm still thinking on this.
Second, I kind of want to release a new picture with each monstergirl log I post. There are a few reasons for this. The logs are short, so it would add some content to the log as a whole. It would also show the monstergirl in a new context (a lab on a spaceship), which gives the reader both a visualization of the individual monstergirl and the environment in which this is all taking place. I really think these three things are quite important, to the point I don't think this would project would be much without the images. So I'd need to either find an artist affordable enough to commission X number of pictures from them, or convince one or more of the resident drawfags to get on board with this.
As I said, it's an ambitious project, but I think it could be really cool if I pulled it off.
That's all for my rambling. Here's my day-by-day progress as usual:
Mo: 3 pages
Tu: 6 pages
We: 4 pages
Th: 8 pages
Fri: 0 pages
Sat: 11 pages
Sun: 5 pages
As far as when I'll finish BTE8, I'm not sure. I'm aiming for next Saturday, but depending on how much I get done today it might be earlier. I would definitely say not before Wednesday.
Since I've finally made some real progress with writing in finishing P&L and posting Marilith's Massage along with it, I've given more thought to what I'm going to write next. As I said before, It's Not the Fall will come right after I'm done with this translation, but I've also been throwing around ideas of what my next writing project might be. I like succubi and lilim and I haven't had a chance to write them yet, so I want to do something with them. Here are my ideas at the moment:
- A story set in the MGE world, involving a man who tries and fails miserably to get the attention of a lilim and is forced to work on himself in order to be seen as interesting. He's helped in this by an oddly invincible middle-aged man and a lilim that tries her best to remain obscure to the rest of the world. I was thinking the lilim the man is trying to get the attention of is Mari since 1) I find her interesting and 2) she fits the role quite well, a boisterous and powerful lilim who cares more about exploring the world than taking it over. The problem with this idea, however, is that the story I'm thinking of would have to be of some length, but I don't have the ammunition to fill out a story of the length I have in mind, if that makes sense. If it doesn't: I basically have a core concept that I find interesting but I don't know how to flesh out all the details. This story would require the most work to figure out before I could start writing it.
- A contemporary fiction on a much smaller scale. A man is attacked by a succubus in the depths of night and things go as you would usually expect a succubus attack to go until the point where the succubus is ready to finish up. She keeps draining the man, yet no matter how much she pulls from him, he doesn't die, to the confusion of both participants. The rest of the story is about the succubus stalking the man, finding myriad ways to seduce or trick him into sex than draining him beyond what should kill him. The man has to figure out how to either escape her neverending hunting or convince her to stop, at the same time finding out why the hell her attacks don't kill him.
- Finally, the most ambitious idea I have and the one I want to do most. At its core, it's a tale about a scientist, one of many sent out into the reaches of space to find a way to help humanity survive a disease of infertility. He comes across a planet filled with monstergirls and takes them up into his ship, one at a time, to study them. He's surprised to find how human-like they are and their mating compatibility, but is also driven to find out why. It wouldn't be a typical chapter-by-chapter format. Rather, I'd release logs and journals about each monstergirl as he studies them. These would be much shorter (1-2k words) than my typical chapters (4-6k words) but released more frequently. In addition, there would be a main storyline progressed by less-regular personal journal updates where the man talks about how things are going, any communication with home base, and his personal thoughts on the situation. These would progress the core story, and every now and then something unexpected would happen. I have several ideas for the "unexpected", one being that one of the monsters corrupts the AI on the ship into becoming curious about the scientist in exactly the way you're thinking. I don't want to go into any more of these ideas and spoil the surprise should I ever get around to this story.
That's just the cool part, though. There are two big challenges I think that would come with this story. First, the presentation. I think this would ideally be it's own website, like a wiki, with the most recent main story journal on the front page and links to the monstergirls already studied. I would have to make it so the monstergirl study logs contain practically no reference to the story progression so people could read the logs in whatever order they want, or divvy up the logs into tiers of some sort based on significant events in the main story. I'm still thinking on this.
Second, I kind of want to release a new picture with each monstergirl log I post. There are a few reasons for this. The logs are short, so it would add some content to the log as a whole. It would also show the monstergirl in a new context (a lab on a spaceship), which gives the reader both a visualization of the individual monstergirl and the environment in which this is all taking place. I really think these three things are quite important, to the point I don't think this would project would be much without the images. So I'd need to either find an artist affordable enough to commission X number of pictures from them, or convince one or more of the resident drawfags to get on board with this.
As I said, it's an ambitious project, but I think it could be really cool if I pulled it off.
That's all for my rambling. Here's my day-by-day progress as usual:
Mo: 3 pages
Tu: 6 pages
We: 4 pages
Th: 8 pages
Fri: 0 pages
Sat: 11 pages
Sun: 5 pages
Friday, March 6, 2015
List of Artists
UPDATE 11/9/2015:
It's been a long time since I've done commissions, so some of this information may be outdated. I've removed some artists that I thought were inactive or maybe not quite as good as the others. Again, since this is a monstergirl-oriented list, I'm fairly certain these artists all do mosntergirls. Most do NSFW as well.
I know finding good artists to commission can be difficult, especially for monstergirls where the anatomy is particularly challenging and all the resident drawfags (mono, Mari, Loen) are already completely booked or otherwise unavailable.
DISCLAIMER: Besides the three artists I personally worked with, I know NOTHING about these artists besides what's stated on their pages. Most of the comments here are my impressions, nothing more, nothing less. I encourage you to contact the artists if you want to know more and take nothing here as gospel.
I worked with 3 different artists (the third has yet to deliver) and researched many more. I want to share my experience and research so other people can benefit from it. I've got a few different priorities when looking for/judging an artist: skill/style (I was mostly looking for anime/far eastern style artists, but western can be okay too), availability (do I have to wait 2 weeks while they get through a queue 30 people deep or can they start working the day I give my request?), price (does the price double for a second character? Is color affordable? Does cost match skill?), attitude/work ethic (are they going to be dragging their feet and making excuses or get to it? Do they communicate enough?).
EUDETENIS :
Probably the most skilled artist out of all the artists I looked at, with reasonable prices for her ability. She doesn't do her commissions as you might typically think. She does 3-4 slots a day and spends all weekend doing commissions on stream. I waited a little under 2 weeks to have mine done. I didn't watch her draw it myself, but I would imagine she'll take input while she works. While she's a bit light on the communication, she talks to you as much as she needs to, offering a rough sketch then some back-and-forth while you work out the details. For me this happened the day before she started drawing. She also shows the list of people she's doing commissions for the current day so you know about what time of day yours will be done. Also, she had a very clear, helpful chart with examples of all of her prices and drawing options.
Magnifire :
I picked him because I liked a few of his other pictures, but it turned out he was also very quick-working and maintained steady, helpful communication. While Eudetenis was the better artist, I'd much rather commission from him again. I waited 8 days to get the finished product, but he replied to the initial request quicker than anyone else and told me about when he'd be able to start on mine. I wouldn't say I'm 100% satisfied with the drawing (Val's expression looks a little vacant and her body language isn't completely into it) but it's still awfully good and he offered a very fair price for his work. He's also done monstergirls in the past, so if you're looking to commission one, I'd recommend him.
LiquidMark :
The third artist I commissioned. Seems like a pretty cool guy. A decent amount of communication. Most of the time when there were delays, he told me why, and they weren't just excuses, they were actual reasons. He's tried to accommodate my request, despite its difficulty (it's more difficult than the other 2 commissions). Hasn't complained about it at all. Price is maybe a little high compared to an identical commission from another artist of similar skill, but I liked his flavor of western style. Despite all these positives, however, he just hasn't delivered. It's been a month and a half now since I paid. For 3 of those weeks, he had legitimate reasons for delays, but I feel like enough time has passed for him to at least show a sketch or communicate something more to me without me having to ask first. Don't have anything personal against him, I just want what I paid for. I'd still probably recommend him for people looking for a western-style image, as long as you don't have a particularly challenging request.
Here are the other artists I considered but never actually worked with in no particular order (most of these artists are open to NSFW requests):
less - consistently skilled drawings at a good price, but there's a bit of a waitlist. If you're willing to wait, I would recommend him. Has said he's not interested in drawing manticores anymore.
cherryinthesun - looks incredibly skilled, especially with color, and always had a commission slot open, but just too pricey (150$ for what I wanted) for me. Part of that price is probably for her availability.
emperpep - liked his skill, and seemed available, but again, too pricey.
razadrazartsu - pretty good prices, but I simply couldn't get a good gauge of her skill and if she'd pull off my request how I wanted it. Very nearly commissioned her.
ekalos - Great artist. Would've commissioned him, but he opens slots monthly, which means if you don't get your request early on in the month, you're going to have to wait till the next month, and even then it's not guarenteed. Prices looked pretty good, as long as you stick to 1 character.
Fizzz - Western style artist. Wasn't all that interested in western style, but if I was and hadn't found liquidmark, I probably would've gone with him. Good prices.
Grillo - He's not as good as cherryinthesun or Eudetenis, but he's still pretty good and charges like half of what they do. I didn't find him until I'd already submitted my three requests, but I would've picked him as my third if I knew about him.
Ryumo - drew a ushi-oni commission. Looks pretty good. After glancing at her prices, they do seem to get expensive for more detailed/colored pieces, but the skill looks to match the price. No NSFW from what I can tell.
tscbr - Looking at his art, some of his characters look a tad scrawny, but there are some fantastic pieces there too. For the price, I would definitely say he's worth it.
Nayuruu - Not much to say here. Another option with good prices and fairly skilled from his pictures. Communication was a bit slow when I tried talking with him.
Kukuruyo - Looks to have some experience with monstergirls. Pretty thick lines; it's a style I like but maybe some aren't as interested. Cheap prices for full shaded coloring.
Jenna - Drew some really nice manticore pictures. A unique and pleasing style. From those who have commissioned her, however, impressions have been "mixed" based on responsiveness.
osiimi-chan - Looks very good. Good quality, good prices, and from what I've heard she's fairly responsive.
Lightsource - Style is distinctive, characters look more round, I think. Bit more experience with monstergirls and nonhuman anatomy than most.
Figgotry - Drawfag who did some monster musume stuff. One of the cheaper ones but really no drop in quality.
How did I find most of these people? Google. There are 3 sites I searched, HF, DA, and pixiv, using this exact search phrase:
site:whatever.com "commissions"
whatever.com being which of the 3 sites I wanted to search. I also tried "commission".
It's been a long time since I've done commissions, so some of this information may be outdated. I've removed some artists that I thought were inactive or maybe not quite as good as the others. Again, since this is a monstergirl-oriented list, I'm fairly certain these artists all do mosntergirls. Most do NSFW as well.
I know finding good artists to commission can be difficult, especially for monstergirls where the anatomy is particularly challenging and all the resident drawfags (mono, Mari, Loen) are already completely booked or otherwise unavailable.
DISCLAIMER: Besides the three artists I personally worked with, I know NOTHING about these artists besides what's stated on their pages. Most of the comments here are my impressions, nothing more, nothing less. I encourage you to contact the artists if you want to know more and take nothing here as gospel.
I worked with 3 different artists (the third has yet to deliver) and researched many more. I want to share my experience and research so other people can benefit from it. I've got a few different priorities when looking for/judging an artist: skill/style (I was mostly looking for anime/far eastern style artists, but western can be okay too), availability (do I have to wait 2 weeks while they get through a queue 30 people deep or can they start working the day I give my request?), price (does the price double for a second character? Is color affordable? Does cost match skill?), attitude/work ethic (are they going to be dragging their feet and making excuses or get to it? Do they communicate enough?).
EUDETENIS :
Probably the most skilled artist out of all the artists I looked at, with reasonable prices for her ability. She doesn't do her commissions as you might typically think. She does 3-4 slots a day and spends all weekend doing commissions on stream. I waited a little under 2 weeks to have mine done. I didn't watch her draw it myself, but I would imagine she'll take input while she works. While she's a bit light on the communication, she talks to you as much as she needs to, offering a rough sketch then some back-and-forth while you work out the details. For me this happened the day before she started drawing. She also shows the list of people she's doing commissions for the current day so you know about what time of day yours will be done. Also, she had a very clear, helpful chart with examples of all of her prices and drawing options.
Magnifire :
I picked him because I liked a few of his other pictures, but it turned out he was also very quick-working and maintained steady, helpful communication. While Eudetenis was the better artist, I'd much rather commission from him again. I waited 8 days to get the finished product, but he replied to the initial request quicker than anyone else and told me about when he'd be able to start on mine. I wouldn't say I'm 100% satisfied with the drawing (Val's expression looks a little vacant and her body language isn't completely into it) but it's still awfully good and he offered a very fair price for his work. He's also done monstergirls in the past, so if you're looking to commission one, I'd recommend him.
LiquidMark :
The third artist I commissioned. Seems like a pretty cool guy. A decent amount of communication. Most of the time when there were delays, he told me why, and they weren't just excuses, they were actual reasons. He's tried to accommodate my request, despite its difficulty (it's more difficult than the other 2 commissions). Hasn't complained about it at all. Price is maybe a little high compared to an identical commission from another artist of similar skill, but I liked his flavor of western style. Despite all these positives, however, he just hasn't delivered. It's been a month and a half now since I paid. For 3 of those weeks, he had legitimate reasons for delays, but I feel like enough time has passed for him to at least show a sketch or communicate something more to me without me having to ask first. Don't have anything personal against him, I just want what I paid for. I'd still probably recommend him for people looking for a western-style image, as long as you don't have a particularly challenging request.
Here are the other artists I considered but never actually worked with in no particular order (most of these artists are open to NSFW requests):
less - consistently skilled drawings at a good price, but there's a bit of a waitlist. If you're willing to wait, I would recommend him. Has said he's not interested in drawing manticores anymore.
cherryinthesun - looks incredibly skilled, especially with color, and always had a commission slot open, but just too pricey (150$ for what I wanted) for me. Part of that price is probably for her availability.
emperpep - liked his skill, and seemed available, but again, too pricey.
razadrazartsu - pretty good prices, but I simply couldn't get a good gauge of her skill and if she'd pull off my request how I wanted it. Very nearly commissioned her.
ekalos - Great artist. Would've commissioned him, but he opens slots monthly, which means if you don't get your request early on in the month, you're going to have to wait till the next month, and even then it's not guarenteed. Prices looked pretty good, as long as you stick to 1 character.
Fizzz - Western style artist. Wasn't all that interested in western style, but if I was and hadn't found liquidmark, I probably would've gone with him. Good prices.
Grillo - He's not as good as cherryinthesun or Eudetenis, but he's still pretty good and charges like half of what they do. I didn't find him until I'd already submitted my three requests, but I would've picked him as my third if I knew about him.
Ryumo - drew a ushi-oni commission. Looks pretty good. After glancing at her prices, they do seem to get expensive for more detailed/colored pieces, but the skill looks to match the price. No NSFW from what I can tell.
tscbr - Looking at his art, some of his characters look a tad scrawny, but there are some fantastic pieces there too. For the price, I would definitely say he's worth it.
Nayuruu - Not much to say here. Another option with good prices and fairly skilled from his pictures. Communication was a bit slow when I tried talking with him.
Kukuruyo - Looks to have some experience with monstergirls. Pretty thick lines; it's a style I like but maybe some aren't as interested. Cheap prices for full shaded coloring.
Jenna - Drew some really nice manticore pictures. A unique and pleasing style. From those who have commissioned her, however, impressions have been "mixed" based on responsiveness.
osiimi-chan - Looks very good. Good quality, good prices, and from what I've heard she's fairly responsive.
Lightsource - Style is distinctive, characters look more round, I think. Bit more experience with monstergirls and nonhuman anatomy than most.
Figgotry - Drawfag who did some monster musume stuff. One of the cheaper ones but really no drop in quality.
How did I find most of these people? Google. There are 3 sites I searched, HF, DA, and pixiv, using this exact search phrase:
site:whatever.com "commissions"
whatever.com being which of the 3 sites I wanted to search. I also tried "commission".
It's finally that time. Passion and Lust 5 has been approved on Literotica. My other story was approved a few days before that. Here are the links:
Passion and Lust:
Literotica
Pastebin
MMM:
Literotica
Pastebin
I realize the ending of P&L may be a bit sudden, but the truth is I had planned it to be about twice as long, which the second half being mostly Lust & Allen as they tried to rescue Val from the clutches of a 3rd party (another spirit) but when I got to chapter 5 I realized I didn't have it in me to write all that out. So yes, the ending comes a little quick.
However, I have something I hope will make up for it. Since I took so damn long to get that last chapter of P&L out (chapter 4 was posted last Feburary), I figured it'd be nice to add a little something else. So I commissioned two pictures of Val showing Allen a good time.
http://i.imgur.com/Pk5HEVV.jpg (by EUDETENIS) - So this picture I want to add a bit of a disclaimer to: it's not really how I see Val. Val's got darker skin and she's not so scawny. However, I can't really blame the artist for this, she drew exactly what I told her to draw. I've never commissioned anything before, so I didn't realize exactly how specific you have to be. Also, to her benefit, she actually drew a more realistic stature for a taller woman than I had pictured in my head. In addition to all that, I will say that the woman looks a LOT like how I pictured Lust. Exchange those extra arms for succubus wings and make her hair dirty blonde, and you've pretty much got Lust.
http://i.imgur.com/wnzfCj9.png (by Magnifire) - Magnifire had an advantage with drawing this because he was able to use Eudetenis' picture as a reference. I was able to be more specific and told him all the differences from the reference I wanted to see and he delivered quite well.
http://i.imgur.com/2Ad5DkU.png (Alternate - didn't go with this one since it made Allen's dick look freakishly long, but I still kinda like how it looks)
Passion and Lust:
Literotica
Pastebin
MMM:
Literotica
Pastebin
I realize the ending of P&L may be a bit sudden, but the truth is I had planned it to be about twice as long, which the second half being mostly Lust & Allen as they tried to rescue Val from the clutches of a 3rd party (another spirit) but when I got to chapter 5 I realized I didn't have it in me to write all that out. So yes, the ending comes a little quick.
However, I have something I hope will make up for it. Since I took so damn long to get that last chapter of P&L out (chapter 4 was posted last Feburary), I figured it'd be nice to add a little something else. So I commissioned two pictures of Val showing Allen a good time.
http://i.imgur.com/Pk5HEVV.jpg (by EUDETENIS) - So this picture I want to add a bit of a disclaimer to: it's not really how I see Val. Val's got darker skin and she's not so scawny. However, I can't really blame the artist for this, she drew exactly what I told her to draw. I've never commissioned anything before, so I didn't realize exactly how specific you have to be. Also, to her benefit, she actually drew a more realistic stature for a taller woman than I had pictured in my head. In addition to all that, I will say that the woman looks a LOT like how I pictured Lust. Exchange those extra arms for succubus wings and make her hair dirty blonde, and you've pretty much got Lust.
http://i.imgur.com/wnzfCj9.png (by Magnifire) - Magnifire had an advantage with drawing this because he was able to use Eudetenis' picture as a reference. I was able to be more specific and told him all the differences from the reference I wanted to see and he delivered quite well.
http://i.imgur.com/2Ad5DkU.png (Alternate - didn't go with this one since it made Allen's dick look freakishly long, but I still kinda like how it looks)
Sunday, March 1, 2015
It seems I goofed a bit. When I submitted the final chapter of P&L to Literotica, I had a 1-sentence "see my member page for more" at the end of it. Checking Literotica's submission guidelines, I didn't see any rules about self-promotion, but as I hadn't seen it in anyone else's stories, I figured I'd just direct people to my blurb on Literotica, and from there they could find a link to this blog. Surely they wouldn't object to pointing people to their own site?
Well, actually, yes. I saw today they rejected the submission because there's no self-promotion allowed in stories. I checked their guidelines again but didn't see anything about it. I'm not going to stress too much about it, as Literotica has never been the most organized site, but it does mean another 3-7 day wait until you see it show up.
As far as translations go, Monkue Nabe is going along fine. Typesetting for the first story is a little more troublesome than I thought it would be, but Setouchi doesn't write much text on any given page, so the typesetting hasn't slowed me down much. The translation's been surprisingly frustrating. Usually I can take a good guess at what a sentence is going to say before I get it typed in and start using translation aides, but I haven't been able to do that so much here. I think the character from the first story is using some slang, but I know absolutely no slang in Japanese, so I'm having to slog through it with what makes sense in the context. Again, though, I don't see this slowing me down much. You can see the progress on the sidebar, as always.
Starting 2-23
Mo: 1081
Tu: 1004
We: 0 (editing/submitted)
Th: 0
Fri: 8 pages
Sat: 3 pages
Sun: 3 pages
Well, actually, yes. I saw today they rejected the submission because there's no self-promotion allowed in stories. I checked their guidelines again but didn't see anything about it. I'm not going to stress too much about it, as Literotica has never been the most organized site, but it does mean another 3-7 day wait until you see it show up.
As far as translations go, Monkue Nabe is going along fine. Typesetting for the first story is a little more troublesome than I thought it would be, but Setouchi doesn't write much text on any given page, so the typesetting hasn't slowed me down much. The translation's been surprisingly frustrating. Usually I can take a good guess at what a sentence is going to say before I get it typed in and start using translation aides, but I haven't been able to do that so much here. I think the character from the first story is using some slang, but I know absolutely no slang in Japanese, so I'm having to slog through it with what makes sense in the context. Again, though, I don't see this slowing me down much. You can see the progress on the sidebar, as always.
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Mo: 1081
Tu: 1004
We: 0 (editing/submitted)
Th: 0
Fri: 8 pages
Sat: 3 pages
Sun: 3 pages
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