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"Later, Skater" UPDATE
I've been slowly working my way through an edit of the novel I wrote back in November for NaNoWriMo still currently titled "Later, Skater." Labels: later skater, NaNoWriMo, works
It's about two teenage boys who meet under extremely odd circumstances in a program designed to alter their sexual orientation.
Considering while I was writing it, I was working hard to do the 50,000 words as quickly as possible, the manuscript is, for lack of a better word, trashy. Lots of extra unneeded words, tense shifting, and general mayhem typically caused when rushing to put something to paper, or in this case, screen.
BUT! That's not saying it's bad. I think it's really good. I think it has some really defined lovable characters dealing actually quite humorously with such terrible circumstances. And, of course, in the same styling as my first novel "Pixiesticks," I've loaded it up with lots of hot sex. I wanted it to be real. I didn't want the scene to fade out once the heat was turned up.
With all that being said, I'm about 1/3 of the way done. And I'll have to hand it over to someone with "fresh eyes" so more of the trouble spots can be identified and ironed out.
So that's what's been going on with that project. It's most definitely not dead. I'm very anxious to get it finished and printed up so I can start selling it to you fans. Final price will be determined when everything is said and done, but I assume it'll be around 13 dollars like "Pixiesticks" is. I am looking at going through lulu.com this time, however, not iUniverse. Amazon.com has an option I'm also looking at as well.
Still sticking with "Later, Skater" at this point. Nothing else has really jumped out at me. I think the title is money to be honest. And I think it'll tie in well with some ideas I have about putting a boy on a skateboard on the cover. Though, that's not even close to being finalized.
Thanks to all of you who care! I definitely will continue to keep you posted.
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Amateur party people.
New Years Eve is one of the only nights of the year where the non-professional party people try to have a good time. I'm all for sharing the love (and the dance floor) with them, but some of you bitches need to know when to say when about three cocktails before you fall into me. And I'm talking about actual girls. Seriously! You're coming into our gay nightclubs, all fine and well, but don't make complete asses of yourself. You're pissing me off! Labels: alcohol, boys, clubbing, DJ Kaze and Tatsuo, drugs, holiday news, Japan, NaNoWriMo, personal, pixiesticks, shota, The Body Shop, WETbar, works, yaoi
On a more positive note: Kaze and Tatsuo's hospitality was so wonderful. I felt very loved while spending our third New Years Eve together as friends. I ventured to their home, which is very lovely. We watched part of the Japan 4 hour annual New Years Eve concert. Tat gave me more Japanese candy! Yum yum yum.
WETbar is where pretty much all of the girls taking spills with their drinks in hand took place. But it was also where we rung in the actual New Year. Who would have thought this time last year Britney Spears would have had made such a disgraceful fall only to be reclaimed as a diva the pretty boys all love singing and dancing to?
I didn't win any of the cash money drop, but then again, I wasn't really trying. And I wasn't dancing so much either. This was because there really wasn't much space to do anything other than perhaps survey the carnage.
A jaunt over to The Body Shop afterwards was filled with ALOT more fun than usual. While I've discussed at length how the after-hours club has simply not lived up to any expectations, last night they really put on a barn burner. Sure, it was mostly filled with the sketchiest of the bunch (partly because another after-hours party at Center Stage was shut down by the po-po), but it was the most fun I'd had there in a while. And perhaps for the first time, The Body Shop felt like a real club.
Today I've spent mostly resting. It was a really long final day of 2007, but I'm glad to say that I survived a particularly troublesome year.
I've also been slowly chipping away at editing down my winning entry for NaNoWriMo written back in November. It's a novel called "Later, Skater" and I'm really fond of it. Editing isn't a easy chore to say the least, but I really feel good about this project and hope it will be successful.
Glad to have each and every one of you to start off this new year. 2008 could end up being one of the most dramatic in the world we live in, but one thing will remain constant: Pixiesticks.org will still stand tall as one of the best places for yaoi and shota.
So stick around and Happy New Year.
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The Future of Pixiesticks.org
Hello my friends and fans of the site, Labels: movies, personal, pixiesticks, secret stash, shota, works, yaoi
On Thursday, December 13th, my webhost, Powweb, suspended their hosting of the site. They said that the site pulled too much bandwidth and because they were alerted to the site, they checked it out and decided the content violated their Terms of Service.
I cannot access the records to find out if there was a sudden surge in bandwidth use, but historically the site has never even come close to reaching the monthly amount.
As for the Terms of Service violations, it's pretty much assumed that the site as long as it wasn't causing any bandwidth problems, the yaoi content of the site wasn't really a concern.
In any event, I obtained new webhosting, GoDaddy, and will be canceling my service with Powweb as soon as I can get them to communicate with me. Which, by the way, is proving to be pretty difficult.
Over the last two days I've been putting together the basic mainframe of the site. The five pieces that are familiar to anyone who's been to pixiesticks.org are about, blog, yaoi, works, reviews. There are now working skeletons of each of these parts, as is the link to the Amazon Honor System which is where you can make money donations.
There is absolutely no way I can return all of the archives of the past several years back online like a flip of a switch. It is impractical. It is messy. And it just won't work.
So, going forward, there will be a new blog and new yaoi section.
In the blog, it'll be business as usual in the posting of all sorts of news stories, private personal details, and just randomness. In the future, I will attempt to bring back the old blog archives so they aren't completely lost to time. This is as much for me as it is for anyone else. I just need to figure out how to do it without breaking anything.
In the yaoi, it'll also be business as usual in the posting of yaoi and shota pictures I find or people draw and send to me. There will NOT be an attempt to bring back the old yaoi archives, the Now Playing video section, or the secret stash. We will be building new archives going forward. I can't just upload all that stuff back up on the site right away and expect it to work. I am sorry if this causes anyone to be upset.
As for the other sections there have been minimal changes.
The about page finally makes logistical sense in being named about.html. It also has a new description and webmaster photo. In the future, the webmaster photo gallery and other personal information about me will be added.
The works page will be more logistically organized when it returns fully in the future. Currently, it has a slightly altered look with the addition of the most recent completed manuscript called "Later, Skater." In addition, all of the smaller short stories and poetry has been returned to the site.
The reviews page has been uploaded with no changes necessary since it was a glorified text file.
I know that change is hard for people. I know that a lot of you are new to the site, and that most of you only came for the yaoi. I know that some of you have followed pixiesticks.org for years. Some since the beginning. I want you to all continue to come back to my site, but understand if what's happened makes you want to delete your bookmark and move on.
I've only lost my webhosting once before when it comes to pixiesticks.org. It happened two years after the creation of the site, back in 2003. It's been twice that long now and it hurts more than twice as much.
But I think it happened for a reason. That there are lessons I need to learn from this. And that I need to take this chance to somewhat start again fresh. The site may not run smoothly for a while. Things are probably still going to break because I'm not a very good webmaster when it comes to programming html. And blogger is probably going to continue to give me a hard time.
However, I hope that all of this can turn out for the best.
--Love Always,
--PIXIE
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