Roust is finally back in action, and I have the edited copy for SOTM 16 in hand. I’m going to go through the suggestions shortly, get back with a second draft if necessary, and then finalize it.
The chapter will go into the queue on Monday, aiming for a Thursday night at midnight release, as I have with the previous two chapters.
Haven’t been in much of shape to write or code from work and a rough weekend. I did get a few words down on Lowborn and SOTM, and tweak/add a little code. I’m pretty close to having the basics of the new website ready to launch.
Mostly, I’ve been doing data entry in the backend functions I’ve written to add content to the site. All of my work ( with the exception of a how-to up on Lit and the aborted CST3K pilot on SOL ) has been entered into the database. I’ve also created all my series/genres and descriptions, linking them to the stories.
I still have a few “Image Filtered” pics to create, as I use different size header pics on various pages. Eventually, I’ll have a default set, with templates that I can cut-n-paste images onto.
First day of the inspection is over at work. Last year, it was only two days. Not sure if the corporate visit will carry over beyond the inspection. Once both of those things are over, it will get much easier, and I won’t be coming home as physically and mentally exhusted.
Put the air conditioners in the windows today, so that’s another irritation out of the way + better sleeping.
Had an idea for a story for Nude Day. Have to see if it pans out. It would be a story about Wade’s father ( Kindred of the Wood ) and go back to when he was a young man, before he met La’isa. Odds are that it would be a one-shot story with a similar title like “Something of the Lake” because this would be the only history story from that branch of the family. Wade’s tale is in Kindred, and Dara’s will be in the Summer story. Both families are too intertwined at that point for my original concept of two side-by-side series.
Okay, I’m off to bed. Hope to have more to report on writing soon. Still waiting on Roust to get back up to speed and get SOTM 16 back to me. Perhaps I’ll have an announcement post appearing on the new version of the website when it launches soon.
Yeah, no luck with that better day thing today. It was even worse. Power was out for an hour, and then we were stuck doing intensive houskeeping for an upcoming inspection.
Determined that I was too exhausted to even think about writing tonight. No sense putting down stuff that I’ll cringe over later *laugh* Every time I closed my eyes to visualize the next scene in Lowborn, I was nodding off. Just not going to work tonight.
What I’ve accomplished the last couple of mornings and evenings was to get the database for my series built, and create the administrative functions for it ( at least, adding and editing )
Also created the database for the information about my stories, and templated out a lot of the administrative functions for adding. Retemplated the “my work” page a little as well. It’s much cleaner, easier to read, and contains a lot more information in the same small space.
Laying off that for the night now, too. Too tired to think about coding. Besides, I’m coming up to a more difficult section that involves both the story database and the series database. Associating a story with a series is simple. Creating the administrative functions that will let me sort the series in the correct order, while allowing me to insert new stories in the middle as I write them… Not so much.
Then I’ve got to deal with the feild that holds the links to reviews and awards. That’s using some complex storage routines in order to make it infinitely expandable. I may have to do the same thing with the “other link” part in time. For now, none of my stories have more than one link outside of Lit or SOL, so I’m leaving it as a simple storage.
Or, I may end up creating databases for those, and using joined queries to grab them. I just have to remember how to do joined queries, if I go that way =P
If I can get enough images together, I’m probably going to make the page images dynamic beyond the filtering. Images appearing in the headers will be randomly selected from a group of an appropriate size and gender. May as well take advantage of the dynamic ability I have at my fingertips, since it will take all of a minute or two to write, and a few seconds to update with new pics as I get them.
If the recent anonymous commenter(s) on Danica and SOTM happen to pop into the website here: Thanks! The praise is much appreciated 🙂
Where the dynamic abilities of the website are really going to come into play is with LST3K, eventually. I’ve always had dreams of the collaboration process on those being more or less real-time, allowing all riffers to work from a database stored copy of the story.
Ditto the “application” to be a riffer. I’ll probably have sample stories with and without comments up on the DB, and applicants will add their comments to the story that way as well ( though riffing a story of your choosing the old fashioned way will be perfectly acceptable as well )
Probably also be a “U Riff” section of the site eventually, where any visitor can join in riffing on a story — probably with a “like” button, so the most popular comments are sorted toward the top, highlighted, and don’t drop off after receiving enough “likes”
Don’t forget, if you have some awful erotica of your own creation laying around that you’d like to see riffed, send it along!
Okay, I’m rambling. I do that when I’m over-tired. I’m going to chill for a while, wind down, and hit the sack. Maybe the extra couple of hours sleep will put me in a better position to write at least a little tomorrow ( though the forecast for work is — if anything — potentially worse tomorrow than today )
It’s been a rough week at work. I’m writing a little on SOTM 18/Lowborn 07 and coding a little behind the scenes. I’m getting something done every day, but just not enough to really report.
Hoping for better days as the week goes on, or at least a peaceful weekend =P
EDIT: Just updated to IE 9, and realized that the titles and such were invisible with one of the settings in my theme in the new browser, so I’ve disabled the “added feature”. Be sure to give me a yell in a comment if you see anything strange like that.
Got a bit more writing done, but nothing really big. The young one was actually in a mood to have company quite often this weekend, so I spent a lot of time playing with him. The between time wasn’t exactly conductive to erotic writing. Going from flipping him upside down or tossing a frisbee to writing pr0n wasn’t exactly an easy transition *laugh*
So, I mostly coded in the between spots. Latest releases is now fully functional, and loaded with the actual last 10 releases. Even though it won’t be available on the public pages for a while yet, I’m going to update it as if it is. So, when it goes live, it will be completely accurate and up to date.
I’ve puzzled out all the conditional things to filter images, text, links, etc. and have tested all of it with every permission level. The latest releases coding covered pretty much every element of every other function I need to write, so I’ve done all the hard work now. From here on out, I’m just using what I’ve already learned ( and already coded. I can reuse a lot of the modules I’ve written on other pages )
The next step will be the “my work” database, showing everything about all my stories. That’s the critical part, and once that’s done, I’ll probably do the final tweaks to everything else, and link it all up on the public side. Some of the main links will be greyed out for a while until I code the backend modules to fill the databases, but my stories will all at least be linked and detailed.
Promise I’ll get back to writing. It was just too hard to stay away as close as I was to a breakthrough, and it wasn’t a good weekend for writing erotica anyway. Once Roust is back with a fully functional computer and gets me back SOTM 16, I’ll be itching to get more stuff out. As it stands, that’s sort of slowing me down. I know that nothing is moving forward toward release until he’s ready to edit it.
I’m off to bed. Hope to be back with real writing progress tomorrow evening — most likely Lowborn. That’s another one of those “I’m so close I can taste it” things, and I’d like to finish the story to start posting it.
