The Good News! · 10:03pm Jan 25th, 2019
Four items of news today, folks! All of it good!
You know that old saying “No news is good news?” Well, I have been a little quiet over the last few weeks.
In fact, the area where I’ve been the most quiet is my Current Projects page, simply because a few months ago I forgot to update it for a few days and lost count of where I was on Hunter/Hunted. As in, I lost track of my word-count, which was my process for updating everyone.
Well, I haven’t gone through and added up a word count of each chapter. I mean, I could … but it was the holidays, etc etc. So I just went with “No news is good news” and kept writing.
And now? I can give you the good news. The Dusk Guard Saga: Hunter/Hunted has only four chapters left, counting the one I’m working on right now. Five, maybe, if something unexpected catches me by surprise.
Yeah, we’re talking next week.
Oooh, more Dusk Guard soon-ish? You have my attention.
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Wait, whaaaaaat?!
But how will everything be resolved in four chapters?
Well, I suppose things were coming to a head. Looks like I'm in for one heck of a ride.
Edit: The rest is pretty cool, too. I hope that Halo pitch goes well, and I am definitely looking forward to more Colony.
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Oh, you'll see. Bwahahahaha!
Seriously though, if all goes as planned it should be a very satisfying ending.
And naturally, Jungle is going to be awesome. So many predictions and theories are going to be blown away when it hits.
Legit forgot this until I saw this blog post. Looking forward to the sequel.
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You absolute madman.
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I don't know if I'm scared or just really looking forward to all that.
Have you considered https://www.subscribestar.com/ or https://liberapay.com/ instead of patreon? I really want to help support such things, but find it harder to stomach what patreon is doing. Subscribestar seems like it would be better honestly.
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After looking at a bunch of stuff, indeed subscribestar seems like the better option. liberapay is based in europe and follows the euro rules. https://www.subscribestar.com/subscribestar and specifically on the 21st, you can see that they already went through a lot of crap on the payment processor side and have a thing set up so it won't happen again.
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I'm not convinced Subscribes tar's Terms are any better. For starters, they state in their agreement terms that not only do they keep track of what you post, but hold the right to remove or even terminate based on anything you say that they find disagreeable, which includes a list of a topics among which is politics.
Second, they're not what Patreon is. Patreon is "We are a place where people can donate money for your activities elsewhere." Subscribestar is very much "We pay you for stuff posted here based on how popular it becomes." In other words, they want your content there, and once there it's not really yours anymore. It's theirs, though again, their terms of service make this very vague. They're very clear that you waive all legal right to arbitration of any kind in the event you disagree with them, however, and that in that case you forfeit all your earnings.
It's a site for a very different kind of content, and I would not be comfortable using it, least of all for the amount of content I'd need to generate with no actual promise of reward behind it and the lack of actual ownership of said content.
They're paying people to create their product, not acting as a exchange system for support.
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And yet patreon is scrubbing people from its base, while leaving others still there. Same thing twitter, facebook and youtube(google) are doing.
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And SubscribeStar has the ability to do so at any time, for any reason written right into their terms of service. I don't see what would be of value to me in switching to a service that's set up to do that from the beginning, especially when it gives them claim over rights to everything I post. With Patreon, Patreon is only an intermediary. My books, my site, those are mine.
SubscribeStar wants my site on their service, at which point my content is theirs, to keep even if I leave.
I'm not seeing any advantage at all, and in fact several strong disadvantages. SubscribeStar is very much a content generation service where you sign up to become an open content-producer on their behalf, not yours.