Less a return and more a reboot. A return would imply the old posts are back. They aren’t.
I originally took the board down because I just couldn’t keep up with spammers. That and a couple of server moves really sealed its fate. The database is still floating around but it’s hardly in a usable state.
Someone suggested another board that might be willing to host a subforum for discussion. After speaking with one of their admins, there’s now a section devoted to Terra Fabula on the Planet Furry boards should anyone still be so inclined to discuss anything related to Terra Fabula’s universe.
Is it better than doing the same inside blog comments? Perhaps.
Is it better than this delicious plate of chicken and noodles before me? Questionable. I’ll get back to you after I lick the plate clean.
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Posted by Derek
Sep
06
2010
The continuation of Terra Fabula, Awakening, Part 5 has been posted.
As we continue on through this journey, I’m realizing that there’s a great number of things I’ve built in my head that have never made it here. Worse yet is mentally sorting what’s current, what’s from the prior revisions, and what hasn’t been seen at all (other than by my cats). My notes, honestly, are terrible.
Some of the omissions I discovered this week, as I went back and corrected small but boneheaded spelling errors through most of Terra Fabula. I’m not entirely sure how they slipped by, but I’m confident I’ve squashed most of them. I may have been designing this universe of theirs for the past 15 years, but I’m hardly what anyone would call a professional author.
With today’s installment, I’ve included what I feel is a major omission in regards to explaining a key part of the Val’Traxan culture. I think it’s been made clear that AIs are an integral part of their lives; some of what we look at in our own society as big-brotherish, they take for granted as part of a social contract. They are being watched. And for them, it works. It wouldn’t for everyone. I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t for us.
I’d also like to give thanks to someone who’s helped stabilize the foundations of the universe over the last several months. I haven’t asked if he wants his online name in public for this assistance, so I won’t include it (yet). But I hope he knows I’m very grateful for the help he’s provided in finding gaping holes in the underlying framework, once I peeled back the drywall to peek behind.
And thanks for stopping by!
If you’re here for the fiction, check out the Chronicles section. I make a new blog post any time I put a new chapter up, so following along in a feed-reader should keep you up to date. I’m now also joining the modern age and including a notice on my twitter account as well (@bluevulpine).
Remember when there used to be a messageboard here, instead of blog comments? It’s back.. Many thanks to the folks at PlanetFurry for hosting it. Several other very talented authors make their homes over there. Check them out.
If the index feels a little daunting to navigate and you’re not sure where to begin, Terra Fabula’s Blizzard is the very first chapter in the series. Start there.
I hope you enjoy the story as much as I enjoy writing it.
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Posted by Derek
Aug
28
2010
Out of curiosity, I pulled up the total combined size of all chapters posted as of today to practice some MySQL queries.
Terra Fabula: 927,649
Paradigm Shift: 386,818
Together, they’re pushing 1,314,467 bytes. Depending on if you count by 2s or by 10s, That’s 1.31MB or 1.25MiB.
219,734 of these are space characters, which (barring a minor overhead for inline formatting codes implementing a space) is also a good estimate for the total word count.
I’ve used the letter ‘e’ 122,658 times (539 occurrences of which are capital ‘E’). This is 9.3% of the total character count. As in, there’s nearly a 1 in 10 chance of a random letter pulled from the database being an ‘E’.
q, 1047 times, 32 of them as a ‘Q’. This is 0.08%.
The word ‘the’ has been uttered 16027 times. 7.2% of the total word count.
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Posted by Derek
Aug
20
2010
The title says it all: Another installment has arrived on your local series of tubes.