@kate-flournoy
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@northerner *nods* Makes sense.
@rochellaine :’D Quite. Thank you very much; that was indeed in need of clearing up. I guess that’s what I get for not being around. 😛
@rochellaine whew! 😛 I will confess, you guys had me a little freaked out. I guess I missed the discussion where it all started. *fans self feverishly* That takes a load off my mind.
@northerner I haven’t been on either community as much as I would have liked. :'( When the hiatus was first announced it really hit me in the gut, since KP has been my rock for the past five years and one of the best things that ever happened to me.
At first, I was a little skeptical about the idea of a new site. Sure, Story Embers would be cool… but it wouldn’t be KP. But as it launched and got moving and so many of the same amazing people threw themselves behind it to make it as amazing as they are, I realized that KP is a community, not a website. Wherever the spirit of it is, that’s where I want to be. Clinging stubbornly to an empty forum (as I kind of felt like doing at the beginning) was completely pointless. It isn’t the website that made KP so great, it’s the people. If they moved, I moved. If they decided to split themselves between both forums I’d be happily running back and forth wherever they are and wherever they need me. If they decide to move to the moon, that’s where I’m going.
I don’t see it as a question of proving ‘loyalty to KP’ by competing with SE. They’re all the same people. Are we gonna say that’s changed just because they’re affiliating themselves under a different name?
I don’t think there’s a need to say ‘this is final! We’ve made our decision!’ on anything related to either site. There’s no reason we can’t keep both forums open and running and be totally okay with whichever forum gets the most attention. They’re all the same people. It’s the community that counts.
Whew. 😛 Bit of a mini-rant there. Sorry if that was unduly heated; got a lot of feelings on this and they’ve been building up ever since SE launched. ;P Thank you for giving me a place to vent. XD
@ariel-ashira a little. I’m part of one of the guilds, but not as active as I should be.
@ariel-ashira XD Preparing for a book launch. 😛
@leumeister it’s quite science-y but also plausible. 😀 I like the gravity manipulation thing. I have something slightly similar, only it’s a negative energy pulsar that basically creates a mini wormhole around the ship and enables almost instantaneous transportation.
Lots of cool ideas. 😀
@leumeister *grins* Thanks.
@leumeister I would love to, but unfortunately I’ve got a huge project on my hands right now (launching my first published book this year 😀 ) and I promised myself I wouldn’t take on anything extra.
@waterlily yeah. What he said.
@jenwriter17 heh… I’ve got the opposite problem. 😛
*scratches head* I would say probably the number one thing that makes my novels so ridiculously long is the crazy amount of time I spend really delving into the layers of chemistry in live scenes. I try to do all live scenes if I possibly can (no summaries, no overviews, no generalizations) and I try to make them as alive, complex, and detailed as possible. Sometimes this is a setback and I really need to learn when to stop with the details, 😛 but it’s sure good for adding bulk to your word-count. 😛
@Daeus *sniffles* It was an awesome gif too.
@Daeus my luck says this gif won’t work, but here you go anyway.
Awesome stuff. You should, like… I don’t know, do a course on it or something. XD
@warrenluther04 yep, I believe so… though Kai wasn’t my original invention so I’m not a hundred percent on that… @Dragon-snapper is Kai right?
@warrenluther04 sure, go ahead! 😀