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November 15 Update (Patreon)

Published:
2020-11-15 20:27:40
Edited:
2020-11-16 23:57:32
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2026-06
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NEW: Hey, everyone! Normally I don't end notifications for updates to weekly posts, but the design of the first Tale is especially important. Please check out the two new maps: one is a revised Bangville based on your feedback, while the second is a sample interior map for the same location. Thoughts?

Every one of these weeks continues to be jam packed. -_-

Novella: Blades Falling Softly

Let's start off with the thing I have for you: I decided to make the novella available to all patrons at any tier. I don't have as many rewards during my break, so I hope some of you enjoy this:

https://mega.nz/file/K1si0ChL#QOItxd6p9FZkkRXCIUyQfjPqPbdMxljrLIZ4rR-_qvM 

Blades Falling Softly is a novella, a bit different from my other work and much shorter. Though hardly experimental, it has a different focus and goal overall. That could be a good or bad thing, depending on your tastes, but please take a look if you're interested. It takes place in the TBS universe, but it's a prequel that requires no knowledge of the series.

OEA: Bangville Aesthetic

Please look above to see a WIP layout map for Bangville. It is meant to establish some basics about the aesthetic for the Tale, not to be representative of the final map. There will be trees covering the map edges, for example.

My aim was to have a cheesy/garish mixture of pink and purple to make Bangville stand out, as you might have seen with the forest background. What do you think, is that too far? It will be the first Tale that players see in the game, so it can't be eye-bleeding. Anyway, this is the period where we establish the basic look for the whole Tale, so please give feedback.

Writing Thoughts

I've basically done a NaNoWriMo in the past week, but I could have done a lot more and I spent too much time with my head full of unpleasant thoughts. =/ I eagerly await the day when I no longer use RoyalRoad, but at the moment I just don't have a strong enough fanbase not to use it.

Anyway, I'd hoped that I could write tons and tons of things during my break, but I'm trying to ease back before it ever gets unpleasant. That means less productivity, which could potentially cause stress down the road, but I'm trying to set that aside and relax sometimes.

Self-published Fantasy Results

Meanwhile, in positive news, I scraped into the top ten of that poll I mentioned:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/jqx39c/rfantasy_top_self_published_novels_2020_results/

Now, given the low number of votes and how steeply they drop off, this isn't a great accomplishment. Still, I received more votes than I expected and each one of you who took time out of your schedule to contribute made a difference, which I'm grateful for. ^-^ I don't need awards for my ego, but being on this list will potentially attract new eyes to my work.

That's all for now. Back next week.

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Comments

James

What's wrong with Royal Road?

DukeLeto7

Euclid says there isn't one to Geonetry.

sierralee

The feedback I receive there generally erodes my desire to write.

Desertopa

I was awfully confused by the sort of comments I saw people leaving there, not just on your works but in general across the site, before I realized what kind of site it is, since it never *specifically* says anywhere that it's focused on cultivation fiction or things in that vein. A whole lot of the genre conventions of cultivation fiction would, in most other genres, simply be considered bad writing. And while the fact that there's such a large and approving audience for such works suggests there may be significant value in styles of writing which have traditionally been disregarded, when it comes down to it, an audience accreted around a body of works built on conventions usually considered to be bad writing is going to tend to have some kind of skewed tastes relative to... basically any audience not filtered in that specific way. On reflection, I suppose it's pretty much exactly the same issue as writing for the audience accumulated around porn games, just with a different set of weird conventions.

androidK

thanks for the novella, it should be interesting to see more in TBS universe. as for the bangsville map i think the pink and people of the houses isn’t too much and fits well with the trees. i think the grass and water make the colors evoke more of a poisoned atmosphere, which might have some metatextual humor but i don’t think it’s intended. I subscribe because i enjoy your content and believe in supporting artists in all forms.

Captain Hair

I don't know why, but you saying "jam packed" made me think of Spaceballs, when Lone Star literally jams the radar.

Desertopa

I agree, I think the color of the grass, and the water at least in the context of the surrounding colors, leans a bit towards "creepy" in a way that's probably not quite right for Bangville at the very beginning of the game. The rest of the palette works, I think.

sierralee

It's definitely its own ecosystem. Street Cultivation was my first shot at writing something I'd enjoy that might appeal to that audience, while TWC is my second, taking things from a different angle. We'll see how it does when it launches, I guess. If it really underperforms, I'll cease posting on the site. If it does well, I intend to put perhaps three books up there. We'll see if I'm ever masochistic enough to put TBS up there temporarily, for whatever small number of new readers I'd get. Either way, I hope to have a end date in mind about a year from now.

sierralee

Thanks for giving feedback on everything, especially the new map! I think you make a good point, so you'll see some alternate versions in time. I'll look forward to your thoughts on BFS. ^-^

sierralee

Sadly, my jam has not involved very much strawberry.

Captain Hair

It was raspberry jam, as only one man would dare give Dark Helmet the raspberry!

Decanter

I agree too. I think you can and probably should have normal-looking grass and water while keeping the oddly colored buildings, trees, and flowers. That would make me think "huh, unusual flora and decor sense they have here" while this makes me think "what is wrong with this place?" Poison is right; this grass and water may work better in a Ruined Tale or something. I know the features of the map aren't final but I'm gonna go ahead and say: It looks weird to just have two bare islands in the middle of the pond. Should put something on those... maybe some fountains? That'd be appropriate, in some senses of the word.

Lamsey

+1 from me for the water and grass looking unhealthy. Perhaps heavily saturated verdant colouring would make the foliage and water seem appropriately *luscious* and *fertile*, to adopt the Bangville way of speaking.

Shablam Robohawk

My initial impression for the revised map is that green is better for the grass, but the contrast with the other colors makes the purples and pinks just a little more garish than they looked previously.

Dark Art

+1 for revised map. Initial version didnt make my eyes bleed, but it definitely had a good go at it.

androidK

I think the color changes look great. now it gives me more a vibe akin to saints row 4 while in the “perfect small town”. that may be overly specific but i think it works. the interior map keeps well with the color scheme.

Desertopa

I think "garish" might be a good look for Bangville anyway. The updated map definitely feels evocative of the tone of Bangville to me.

Lamsey

I agree with the others - the updated map colours are a massive improvement. Now it's just the right kind of lurid for Bangville.

Darthjake

Needs pink drapes on the main gate....

Decanter

I haven't read it yet, but maybe you could put the recent novella up there and it'd be less of a pain than putting up all of TBS?

Decanter

Agreed with others - revised map is good. Also, now that I can tell that lower left area is a garden patch and not a weird pond, I've noticed that the inefficient spacing of crops there forms a particular pattern, lol. The new indoor map seems good too.

Finch

I like the boob fountain. I haven't played the game yet- so I have no context for the boob fountain. But I like it.

sierralee

It'd be relatively easy in terms of total chapters, but the audience would hate it.

sierralee

Haha, I'm honestly trying to decide if that's brilliant or a step too far...

sierralee

Bangville is a dimension that operates by cheesy porn rules. ^-^

Lamsey

If you do that then you'd better hope the local stonemason is a woman, otherwise they'll never be able to find the keystone again...

Decanter

Maybe gates rather than drapes? That'd be slightly more explainable, if you ignore that there's no wall around the rest of the place.