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500 Patrons! (Patreon)

Published:
2017-02-11 20:36:10
Imported:
2021-01

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As I've just hit this incredible milestone today, I wanted to take a moment to say a huge thank you to all my Patrons. Not only for your pledges on this site, but also for the contributions you've made to the comments on literotica, and now on here too.

The discussions have been fascinating, and there are several important ideas I've gleaned from them which I'll be incorporating into the story (a few have made it in already!). Hearing how animated people are about the various technologies, story arcs, and characters is quite humbling, and I hope I continue to hold your interest for the forseeable future!

/tips an imaginary hat.

Tefler

P.S. A special thanks to the literotica readers who first suggested I set up a Patreon page! You guys kept talking about it for months before I finally relented, and as you can guess, I'm very glad that I did!

Comments

Anonymous

Woot!! And on to the important question of when shall we see the next bit

Anonymous

Congrats Tefler! It's a tribute to the truth the rest of us know: You work is interesting and draws a crowd. Keep it up!

Grimlakin

Well deserved!!

Tefler
>>3900378

I've written 16k so far, so not too long hopefully. The first 15k I handed over to editors last night.

Anonymous

Huzzah! 'Grats

CJ Mora

Congratulations! But given your talent, it might be more correct to think of it as "the first 500"!

Anonymous

Tefler I'll bet that back on Dec 20 2015 when you published the first chapter of this great store that you never thought some day you would be paid for your writing. I'm glad to be one of those 500.

Anonymous

Wait wasn't it yesterday that you got 400 ? :) 21 days 100 Patrons not bad ^^

Hammerfest

Please add a $3 option. Looks better on my tax paperwork :)

DCM
>>3900891

Me, Me, Me.. I want to play John! Second thought i wouldn't do well in the auditions. Performance stress and short on, uh, testicles.

Jim lynch

It's money well spent fella you get paid if your good enough and by George you are keep it coming and don't rush and end up missing something. Thank you tefler

Tefler
>>3901476

Thanks very much Jim, for your kind words, and the support!

Anonymous

Actually, Tefler, it is us as your supporters who should be thanking you. As Jim said below, it is money well spent for such a remarkable story which puts many of the "big name" Sci-Fi writers to shame. For a first time writer, this series is nothing short of remarkable. I actually feel that I am short-changing you, paying such a pittance each month for such wonderful entertainment. Once I finally leave the great unwashed ranks of the unemployed and start getting some sort of income I'll certainly be bumping my pledge up. It's worth every cent. Thank you again.

Anonymous

:-) (told ya so at the 400-Patron posting!) NOW I'll begin to congratulate you a bit. Now you're really beginning to get somewhere. 3 weeks from 400 to 500? Yeah - and there's a better pace of acceleration coming too.

Muledrvr

Congrats

Anonymous

Good on you Tefler. Your story draws us in and we will be here until the galaxy explodes!

PLRus--Founding member of the TSM F5 club.

Tefler: you really must read this! Buy and install a new fan/heatsink until you can upgrade. Death by overheating comes out of nowhere. AND, unless you have made a copy of your work on a thumb drive, the old disk drive will not be read by the new operating system....so even with an upgrade you cannot just install your old hard drive as a secondary and get anything off of it. When you get the new fan/heatsink also get the silverized heat paste that helps transfer the heat from the cpu to the heatsink on the new fan or you will still have issues. I am sure your problem is with the deterioration of that paste. Happens more often than people realize My suggestions for a new system: You are using it as a word processor, so the latest and greatest gaming PC is a waste...even though these suggestions will still be a good gaming system. Get one that has an I7 processor for longevity, yes. And 32 gig of ram. If you go with digital drives get a mirrored system as those fail without warning but the speed at which they operate is astounding. Definitely go for the larger screen, ergonomic keyboard, and a full sized tracker ball rather than a mouse (you will hate it for a month, but after, you will never go back). Get something akin to the Professional version of Microsoft Office if you can't get the real thing...there is a difference for a professional writer. Get an Office for Dummy's book or two...well worth it for the insider tips and tricks and program insights. Gigabit Ethernet card, multi SSD reader, re-writable blue ray, embedded wifi and wireless connectivity just in case your hard line develops a fault in the wiring to your router. Finally, get an uninterruptible, battery based, power supply (over just a simple surge protector) because the battery is the best surge protector there is as well as it gives clean power to your system as it ignores power fluctuations and gives you time to finish what you are doing before you have to sign off due to a power failure. (set this to audible alarm at first just so you realize just how bad your power supply grid is then set it to silent after a week for your sanity.)

Tefler
>>3900752

No, not at all. I was quite nervous about writing my own story, and putting it out there for people to read. I'd seen plenty of other first time writers get savaged, so it was a nice surprise when the feedback was positive! :-)

Tefler
>>3900778

I know, the Patron numbers have exploded recently. I just think it's great that there's so many people invested in the story!

Tefler
>>3902741

I really appreciate the support, thank you! I've thoroughly enjoyed the writing, and to be honest, it's been great fun being able to chat with like-minded people. Good luck with the job hunting. I always look at each job interview as a training opportunity, to see what I can learn from interviewers techniques. If you take that approach you aren't as nervous, so you come across better to the interviewer, so it's a win-win!

Tefler
>>3909445

Yeah you were right! The jump from 400-500 happened in no time!

Tefler
>>3921605

Don't worry, John and co would have to step in to stop that happening!

Tefler
>>3923738

Thanks for the great advice! I'm still a gamer at heart, although writing has totally absorbed all my free time at the moment. The new planescape game comes out near the end of Feb, so I'm not sure how people will react if I take a month off to blitz that! I want to get dual monitors, and a reasonably powerful system, and it'll be tax-deductable as a tool of the trade, so I might as well enjoy myself! Now that Chapter 70 is done, I'll spend some time researching new systems. The battery power-supply is a great call, I'll look into getting one of those.

Anonymous

Pretty good advice from John. You want to look at the part number of a i7 processer, they are all not the same. Some of the 5th generation has 10 cores and are a bear to keep cool if your running them hard. You will have the Core i7, then 4 numbers, and then after that you may have a letter or two. The 4 numbers will be the exact model, it will let you know the number of cores and threads, clock speeds, and cache size. Then the letter/s will tell you the wattage or Thermal Design Power (TDP), which kinda goes hand-in-hand with clock speed. With the latest generation 7 Core i7 (Kaby Lake) the only Windows you can run is Windows 10. But if you want a graphics monster to handle dual 4k monitors, with the right graphics card it will be no problem. RAM is the key, with a quad core i7, 32gb is a minimum IMO if you want performance. Any less and it seems your choking it. Solid State Drives (SSDs) over Hard Disk Drives (HHDs, which I think is what John means by digital drive).. Current SSDs with large capacity are pretty expensive but prices are dropping fast. You could have 2 2TB HHDs set up as a RAID cheaper then some 240GB SSDs. The best way I have seen would be to have your operating system and core files on an SSD then run other programs and archive on the Raid HDDs which will be how my next will be. My work sometimes requires a SSD dock. It is easier (and secure) to overnight a SSD with large files then to send over the internet. Add/edit then ship it back. To transfer data if your drives are incompatible the best way I have found would be to network the two computers and set up file sharing. Once you have gotten all your data copied then hand the old computer over to the kids (or in my case, grandkids). The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is almost a must for desktops. I haven't ran a desktop without one for over 20 years. I even have them on my TVs, routers, and modem. With a laptop you go thru a power supply to the battery so it's different. Get a quality APS or Tripp Lite that will filter and regulate plus you want some capacity depending on what your going to run off it. Another thing is while SSDs are tough, power interruptions and fluctuations will kill one faster then dropping one. The Blu ray would up your versatility but RWs are not the greatest for data archive unless burned as a R. There is a new M Disc that is a Blu ray on steroids with a laser that burns so hard it is supposed to last for 1000 yrs. Haven't played with one yet. Learning all the short cuts in Office is like never ending. Some of them you will forget before you ever use it. One of the firms I worked for switched to WordPerfect, it was designed so that pretty much anything you could do with the mouse you could do with a keyboard shortcut. Supposedly it was so the secretary never had to take her hands off the keyboard.

Anonymous

Don't discount programs geared for writers like Scrivener. Has a steep learning curve but designed for writers. Places to keep character info etc. And it' set up to output to many different formats.