PAID, HO!!
Oct. 26th, 2011 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floI'm about to polish up a monster post on my experience with e-publishing the short story I mentioned the other day, but first.
- *hugs dreamwidth points* I'm so glad it's easy to transfer these! Now I can have some paid time on here.
- *hugs iPad* You would not believe how much I'm on this thing. Last night, I read through volumes 5-23 of Hikaru no Go (am I bleary-eyed? YES), and I still have 5-6 volumes of other manga waiting for me. I almost dread the day when manga publishers and translators wise up and start shipping to the Kindle at reasonable prices...there goes my future money ;_;
- Just finished reading Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, the sequel to Cold Magic from last year. Frankly, the slow start, rambly and confusing sentences and disjointed plot had me wondering what was up on the author's end, and whether I'd just not noticed how bad the first book was because of my entrancement with her awesomely arrogant cockscomb POC hero and kickass heroine. Then again, I did enjoy it overall, and am curious to see how she wraps things up in the last one, so it wasn't a loss.
- Am recovering from all the bombshells dropped at this year's Blizzcon. PANDAS IN MY GAME? POKEPETS IN MY GAME? The nerdrage everywhere is hilariously over the top, even though the announcements held something for everyone. Leet dungeons for leet raiders, with leet cosmetic gear and better-than-you achieves and leaderboards! PVE scenarios for the terrible dps who just want some VP! Dailies for the terrible casuals who don't even want to queue for VP! And then they'll also have new talent systems for the druids and warlocks who were weeping for their classes, with meh trees for the usual scapegoat classes (paladins ;_;), plus panda pokewow to make all the casual haters quit.
I have to admit, I side-eyed the Pandaria announcement, and I doubt the new race will not be faily or ridiculous in some way. And I am going to rage SO HARD if the female model ends up being the same catastrophe as the female worgen model from cata. But as soon as my love affair with SWTOR is over (hubby and I are pre-ordering and probably playing for at least three months)...that one-year WoW subscription shall be mine.
- I feel weird ending this on such a WoW note. But I have no serious!writer news, except that I'm still working on the godforsaken edit that's eaten the last couple months, so that's it.
- *hugs dreamwidth points* I'm so glad it's easy to transfer these! Now I can have some paid time on here.
- *hugs iPad* You would not believe how much I'm on this thing. Last night, I read through volumes 5-23 of Hikaru no Go (am I bleary-eyed? YES), and I still have 5-6 volumes of other manga waiting for me. I almost dread the day when manga publishers and translators wise up and start shipping to the Kindle at reasonable prices...there goes my future money ;_;
- Just finished reading Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, the sequel to Cold Magic from last year. Frankly, the slow start, rambly and confusing sentences and disjointed plot had me wondering what was up on the author's end, and whether I'd just not noticed how bad the first book was because of my entrancement with her awesomely arrogant cockscomb POC hero and kickass heroine. Then again, I did enjoy it overall, and am curious to see how she wraps things up in the last one, so it wasn't a loss.
- Am recovering from all the bombshells dropped at this year's Blizzcon. PANDAS IN MY GAME? POKEPETS IN MY GAME? The nerdrage everywhere is hilariously over the top, even though the announcements held something for everyone. Leet dungeons for leet raiders, with leet cosmetic gear and better-than-you achieves and leaderboards! PVE scenarios for the terrible dps who just want some VP! Dailies for the terrible casuals who don't even want to queue for VP! And then they'll also have new talent systems for the druids and warlocks who were weeping for their classes, with meh trees for the usual scapegoat classes (paladins ;_;), plus panda pokewow to make all the casual haters quit.
I have to admit, I side-eyed the Pandaria announcement, and I doubt the new race will not be faily or ridiculous in some way. And I am going to rage SO HARD if the female model ends up being the same catastrophe as the female worgen model from cata. But as soon as my love affair with SWTOR is over (hubby and I are pre-ordering and probably playing for at least three months)...that one-year WoW subscription shall be mine.
- I feel weird ending this on such a WoW note. But I have no serious!writer news, except that I'm still working on the godforsaken edit that's eaten the last couple months, so that's it.
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