I am SO glad you're back!

[Lorraine]

Off grid seems mostly a good thing.

It is mostly...up until it rains for days thus no sun for the solar panels and then the gennie packs a sad and you are sitting in the dark whilst those on the grid watch tele by electric lights. Plus batteries to store that generated power are really expensive. Mine are threatening to fail but I keep cossetting them along. Swings and roundabouts. The most sensible thing I'll do, once I can afford it, is buy an inverter generator and keep my modified sinewave one as a backup.

 

[Rokket]

A generator might be fine for the house, but the WIFI router still had no signal after the power came back on. Maybe I should just move my family back to the states. But I lived in a very rural area there. The first problem may be getting internet access period. The second problem is the wife. I took her to visit there 20 years ago. She said point blank that she never wanted to visit there again; let alone live there.

In other news, since I can't model or work in Poser, I decided to bide my time with writing my comic as a novel. I am 36 pages into it. There are a lot of grammar errors and some other things wrong with it, but I am just trying right now to get the story written. If it looks like it might fly, I'll take it to an editor and maybe self publish it. I have someone reading it a chapter at a time to see if it catches his interest. So far, he says he likes how I am laying it all out.

 

[Miss B]

Oh that sounds good Rokket. Sometimes it's good to write it out so you know where our renders/animations will go when you're doing a series of them. Now you have a good chance of becoming a published author as well.

 

[Rokket]

Yeah, if I can get it published I'll be able to create my own cover art!

With all the ideas I have, I could probably turn this into a series of books. I left subtle (or maybe not so subtle) hints connecting my universe to the Marvel universe. I only made mention of a lot of the events of the Marvel movies (like the invasion of New York in the Avengers). I am fairly happy with how the story is flowing.

 

[Lorraine]

She said point blank that she never wanted to visit there again; let alone live there.

That is not a problem, that is a Berlin Wall insurmountability complete with machine guns!

Good luck with the novel

 

[Miss B]

Well Rokket, I'm not sure you're familiar with a gal over at DAZ who goes by Maraich, but she did just that. In fact, I have one of her lovely renders of one of her characters set up as a wallpaper on my Laptop.

I already have the first book in her 3 book series (which she self-published), and her second book came out last summer. Since it's only available at Amazon, and since I don't want the Kindle versions, I need to wait until I have several books adding up to $35 in order to get free shipping, so it'll be a while before I get the second book, perhaps after the third book comes out.

 

[quietrob]

I lived, not visited in Korea, Japan and Germany. I still say while each place has it's charm, there is no better place to live than the USA. While we have a terrible person running for president and doing quite well at it, I think the man just elected President of the Philippines is much worse. At least from what I've read. Geez, rokket. Where did you take your wife in the USA that she never wanted to visit here again?

Now then, I've done the same as you. Written what I'm going to turn into a comic in novel form. While it would be great to be picked up by a major publishing house, self publishing is now here to stay. That means more, if not better choices per genre so let her rip! I will warn you that from what I've read in a forum thread over at Rendo that Marvel seems rather hardcore against letting others use their characters in any way. Even fan fiction which is rather ridiculous to litigate as ALL super-hero movies are not considered canon. Right this second, there are two different Pietro's aka Quicksilver in the movies as we speak. Apparently he didn't age from the 1970's till today. DC seems to be much better natured about it. While my crossover is about DC, I still have the heroes of Astro City in the back of my mind. They are off the grid so to speak but it's as a remarkable a world of super heroes and most of all non-super heroes and supporting casts as I've ever read. I wondered where some of my favorite writers and talented artists went. They went their own way and a lot of them went to Astro City. That said, a reference without referring to Thor and others shouldn't get you in hot water.

Has your story outline changed much from the one I read? I know I was a pain the drain asking silly questions that we used to assume in the old days but I think you enjoyed solving continuity issues. Heck, I've been working on my story for a few years and I still have questions about how certain things will work!

It's a pity we can't really have a story thread. While we could exchange idea's here or over at the writer's corner of Renderosity, I certainly won't for the simple reason that idea thieves are everywhere. I once read that only 10 percent of the people have creative genes. The rest are all consumers of idea's. Nothing wrong with that. Still it puts idea's and stories at a premium. I have a relative that showed her idea to a hollywood b-list star. He stole her idea and made it into a movie for which she got nothing. No I won't mention names as I'm sure there is some google spider that would record it and I would be getting a nasty letter from some attorney but I know her. I believe her. Just make sure those you share your idea's with are people to be trusted, then massage your idea's, put it away and come back to it a week later with fresh input from that wonderful mind of yours.

Okay, I'm putting my soapbox away as I don't want to change my name from quietrob to Won't-shut-up-rob

 

[Lorraine]

Won't-shut-up-rob

 

[Rokket]

When I made the reference to Marvel, I simply stated that there were super powered humans and other beings. I didn't name names and I didn't specifically point to an singular event. I only stated that these people existed, and how much of a storm it caused with religious types, and scientists who refuse to admit there may be life out there. But I did mention that they saved New York. No other details were added. I didn't want to skate on a slippery slope.

And Rob, I took Golden Girl from a minor support role to the one who trains him how to use his powers. But not a live interest (on his part) yet.

I am going to try to find an editor I don't have to worry about sending an electronic copy to. I'd rather hand deliver a fully printed copy and get the same back.

I am on page 38 as we speak.

 

[quietrob]

First off, I'm quite pleased to give a Princess a smile! Alright!

Next, rokket I can understand you wanting the red penned copy you can send your opus to, but I think you might want to reconsider electronic mediums. Still, if you like typerwriters (mechanical word processors with limited correction ability and mental spell check) why not? What program are you using to write in? I use word but I started with Notepad.

 

[Rokket]

I have Word and the rest of the home version of Office on my new laptop, but it's an evaluation copy I have to pay $140 to unlock. I don't have the cash right now, so I am working in Works. But I can save it as a Word document if I like.
I am 40 pages in. John has enlisted the help of an old girlfriend who works as a Hollywood costume designer to help him create his costume, and Zoe Banks/Golden Girl showed up again to warn John that a great disaster was coming for Marysville and he was the only hope to save the city. She also warned him that his enemy would not be after Green Lighting, he was out to destroy John Forester. The story is evolving on its own. But I am keeping it as close to what you read as I can.

 

[Rokket]

The deep blue sea isn't quite as pretty when you work for nearly 13 hours straight. Being on a naval supply vessel means a lot of hard work. The groceries and gas don't deliver themselves. We had a very long day in the very hot sun. I am exhausted and going to bed. I don't think I will get any writing done today.

I am more than a week away from any WIFI too. That kind of sucks.

 

[Lorraine]

That does suck, Rokkit! Hope you have a good sleep tonight and a cooler day tomorrow.

 

[Miss B]

Rest easy Rokket. A good night's sleep works wonders.

 

[Terre]

I hope you had a good rest, Rokket.

 

[Rokket]

Thank you ladies very much for the kind words. I went to bed and get a good 9 hours of sleep. I woke up feeling a little better, but my right was stuck shut and I had to pry it open this morning. Our medical rep thinks I might have pink eye. God, I hope not. I don't want my wife and kids to get it. If I do, I'll see if the doc can give me an eye patch to keep it contained.
When it rains, it pours in my life....
But I did get up at 5AM and got some writing done, so at least I have that.

 

[Miss B]

Geeze, I had that once many many years ago. My then Ophthalmologist gave me drops for it, and it cleared up quickly. I don't recall if they were prescription drops, but I wouldn't be surprised.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Ouch, Rokket! Wash your hands frequently, don't touch any surface if you've touched your eyes or face... and that will help immensely for preventing spread to your family.

That stuff is rotten and nasty to deal with. Ironically enough, neither my husband or I ever had it growing up. Yet, my Bear has contracted it three times in the last five years. (And I am lucky enough to say that I still have not ever had a case of it myself. I, however, get ear infections the way babies do - and always have. LOL)

Definitely get to a doctor. There is medication they can give you that will help clear it up.

 

[Lorraine]

I've never even heard of pink eye. Sounds something not to be sorry about. I had the odd stye and conjunctivitis in my younger days but nothing for many years.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I've never even heard of pink eye. Sounds something not to be sorry about. I had the odd stye and conjunctivitis in my younger days but nothing for many years.

Lorraine, Conjunctivitis is Pink Eye.

Pink Eye is just the "common/street language" term for it. So yes, you've had it. LOL