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Published: 2019-01-16 19:40:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 520; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 0
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Note: Due to migrating off DA due to Eclipse, this widget will now be updated on my WordPress website: windysilver.net/portfolio/my-c…
Hi y'all! If you followed my status updates soon before this was originally posted, you noticed me talking about a small side project done with HTML which ended up backfiring since using it would require Core membership. However, I came up with a way to use it: taking a screenshot of the opened HTML file I made, cropping the screenshot, posting it and updating the picture whenever necessary (meaning daily since I write every day). It's not exactly as good as the widget (although it only shows with the links, otherwise it doesn't matter that much on the side of usability), but it'll do and it sure is better than paying 50$ a year just because of this especially since I don't know if any of you even care about the current status of each of my projects. This is probably more for myself; not only I got to use the HTML stuff I've learned, but I've already noticed that writing down and getting ready to post the status has motivated me to make more progress even though I hadn't posted this for some days yet. I still kept updating the HTML file I have and knew I was going to post this soon, so I decided to make the effort to make the changes count.
The file size between the HTML file and the cropped screenshot is 3 to around 70-80, but since it's in kilobytes, it doesn't really matter nowadays.
Currently, I'm taking not only the first and last update of each month but also every important update (when something goes to editing/finalization/betareading or starts a new chapter or past). I keep those pictures, write their contents down to an Excel spreadsheet and compare the progress at the end of each quarter. I'll probably make a yearly comparation as well.
The link in the file is this one: windysilver.net/my-writings/bo…
I don't expect anyone to get too interested in this, but if you got, I have a free to use base version of this here if you want to use this: www.deviantart.com/windysilver…
The HTML that formed this is available on my GitHub: github.com/WindySilver/HTMLWid…
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My to do list:
Step 1: Lay on the floor.
Step 2: Scream.
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Why is screaming in your to-do list?
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I'm lucky to even get time to do one project. Must be really wonderful to have time to do so many fun things. My current theme is to complete some drawings I've been meaning to finish...sometimes from twenty years ago, some from only a few months ago. One of which is somewhat ridiculous, involving a pregnant dragon, her lady friend and an egg. The main point of the original pencil sketch was to provide a visual scale between a human, dragon and egg. I drew it roughly in 2003 and it's taken me a really long time to get around to coloring it.
Well, good luck with your own projects and I hope you have a lot of fun with them.
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Well, most of these projects are writing projects that can progress with just one sentence a day, which usually doesn't take much time. I've rather often written or translated more than one sentence a day on most of the day's writing projects, but I quite rarely work on, if I were to estimate something, over 600-700 words in a day. Although, it's the drawing projects that suffer from the lack of time, since they need more time in one sitting to even look like there's some actual progress made. I have tons of drawings I want to create, but there's not enough time since they take more time in a day to make and thus I postpone making them, while most of those I begin end up getting semi-forgotten, unfinished and not worked on for indefinite periods of time.
I'm trying to get at least the current WIP comic done so it won't stay unfinished for longer, then I'll do another one I want to do because it feels rather urgent now (I have to get it outta my head, the idea's been sitting there for too long); they're in the same continuity and I want to use the first one as a kinda introductory one so I can have the next one for purely its thing alone. Then I'll return to No Fire Without Smoke, then probably see what I'll do with Rikios.
That sure is a long time for a drawing to wait! I hope you'll get them finished! Good luck with your projects too and I hope you have fun with them as well! ^^
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I tried a comic once...turned out to be more than I could handle at the time. Those are harder than they look so have an idea of how much work a full comic can take. Will you be posting it here?
I keep forgetting that English isn't the language you grew up with, you write it so well. I never tried translating my work into another language before, must be hard.
I did finish it yesterday:
It' didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked, but it's not bad either. It's one of my more odd compositions. I suppose I could have fixed that, but I decided to stick mostly to the original.
Thanks! I did enjoy my project, warts and all.
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Yeah, comics are hard to make, especially if they're long ones. I can utilise a decent amount of copy-paste in my current one's sketch, which has made things a whole lot easier and faster. I will draw the final lineart individually (at least the human lineart, I might copy-paste the background since it doesn't change at all in many panels), though, but with the sketch I will cut corners. I'll be posting the comic here when it's ready, but that will take a fair lot of time; I still have the sketch of the 11th of the 17 panels in progress, and I just figured I've messed up one character's hair, so I need to correct it in some panels before continuing.
Well, I've become so fluent at English that I'd say the translation is more of an arduous task (especially with the words I need to check either just in case or because I don't remember them at the moment) than hard. It'd be much harder in addition to the arduousness if I tried to translate my stuff to French, since I am not really fluent at it. The translation does give me a chace to polish and rework the Finnish stories, though (and I swear to god those stories need the all polish I'll end up doing, since some of the things seriously suck o_o I have no idea whether it was lower standards or just some kind of laziness that let some of the crap slide that badly while rewriting both Lyokostar 1 and Foes & Friends Remastered).
That's great!
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I like to use the copy paste method when I'm doing the same thing over and over again too.
It would be a chore. I might be tempted to use Google Translate one paragraph at a time to get the job done.
Thanks!
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Same here; copy-pasting is far more efficient when doing a repeated task.
Well, while Google Translate is a good tool, I've noticed that sometimes it gives out nonsense as a translation. At least until the translation stuff gets better, it takes a human to make decent translations. I can't even imagine what kind of weird stuff I'd have if I fed Google Translate any part of a story I've written, even one without story-specific words
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Yeah, it can get really ridiculous. Here's an example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMcF7…
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Haha, yeah, I've seen some of those Translator Fails videos. They're hilarious
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I spent quite a while laughing at those videos. I've subscribed to her channel and once in a while I check out what she's got.
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That's a lot of projects! I admire your ambition <3
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Haha, yeah, I have way too much to do. The list of things I could do is huge as well 
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Ooh, this is a really neat way to keep an overview. Awesome that it's been working to motivate you, too!
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