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Welcoming the New Year and Back to Work Peasant!

January 5, 2016 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

BatSmack I hope everyone had a great holiday season and a happy New Year’s. December was a bit more eventful than I had imagined, with some sad tidings on the family front as well as a bunch of holiday related celebrations.

Also, there was much goofing off at the time, but I’ll bet you didn’t think I would point that out, huh? ^_^

Suffice it to say during that time, I didn’t get much writing or translating done, but now I’m back in the thick of things and plan on posting the next translated installment this month as well as posting the next updates on my original works.

Either way, stay tuned for updates and thanks for your patience!

Phantom Star is now out!

November 25, 2015 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

Woooo, it’s finally out! The first chapter of Phantom Star can be found here. So that means I now have two original stories and the translated work going on. I still have at least two more coming online soon so that will have at least four serialized works plus one translated work.

Yes, I must be insane, but I’m having fun while falling into the abyss. ^_^

Beta Readers Wanted!

November 23, 2015 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

Things are going well on the site and the stories are coming along. In fact with weekly chapters of Drow Story being posted, I will start with Phantom Star shortly as well, followed by Memories of Ys and finally Proof of Self.

Even though I know there isn’t much traffic on the comments (except for the translated works) I hope you’re enjoying them as much as I do writing them. If you do like them, please feel free to tell me in comments. Your feedback would be great! (and motivating ^_-)

On that note, I wanted to see if any of you might be interested in becoming beta readers for some of the next stories. Being a beta reader isn’t difficult. All I need is for someone to read through the new posts and tell me what they think; if something needs improvement, or they just didn’t like it, etc. I don’t need a copy editor (I’m actually pretty good at that myself) but I’m looking more for people to give the story a once over and tell me if it seems to be on target and not going off in a nasty direction.

If you’re interested, feel free to post a comment, or message me through the About Me page.

Happy Friday the 13th!

November 13, 2015 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

Just wanted to wish you the best on this superstitious day and wanted to tell you all what going on.

So far, I’m making quite a bit of headway in getting more of my original stories written and posted and as well I am working on the second prologue chapter of Yomuin-san wa Yuusha ja Arimasen node. I may be able to post it next week. I don’t know if I can keep up this speed (since I originally said it would be once per month) but I figure I would just post it as soon as I get it ready instead of just waiting on it. In the meantime I’d love to hear your feedback on Drow Story and Echoes. Please drop by and give them a read. Any comments would be greatly appreciated!

Phantom Star is coming along nicely and I’ll be writing the first chapter soon so expect to see some movement there.

Ideally, I will be writing for all these series and posting at least a couple of times a week. (at least that is the plan).

Have a great day, and beware the yandere in you life.

1st Translation Chapter Post Mortem

November 10, 2015 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

Well, my first attempt at translation was released to the wild last night and so far the response looks pretty good. Of course, not everything is sunshine and roses but I’m pretty happy with the response (although more feedback is always welcome. It helps me improve ^_^ ).

As far as my thoughts on the first post, I was ultimately OK with it for the most part, but I know things can improve greatly. My grasp of the language has deteriorated quite a bit so there will be a lot of re-learning it seems, especially of grammar and usage rules. While I have expertise in English grammar, sadly my Japanese has never been that strong. I’m not happy I am relying somewhat on MTL for the first pass through, but it does help me to understand the sentence a bit more. As time passes and I can re-learn what I have forgotten (and pick up new things as well), and these translations will get better.

I hope you all will bear with me as I continue forward. Right now, I will be working on the second prologue chapter as I write my other stories. So while it may not be posted immediately, I can firmly say that I’ll post it in the coming weeks.

Thanks for reading!

P.S.: In between releases, please feel free to read some of my original works and tell me what you think. I would love your feedback there as well!

Finally Finished!

October 29, 2015 by RenegadeScribe Leave a Comment

Just finished the last of the updates to the site so for the most part I am done with the blog re-design. Still a lot of other things that I could work on (like all of the nifty SEO settings) but fuck it, I don’t feel like continuing to tinker with that crap. It’s time to get writing and translating.

Right now, I have a variety of my original projects and the one translated project I’m working on, so I plan to make steady progress on them all. Especially since I have a stable platform to work on once more (the last blog suddenly stopped responding, which gave birth to this redesign).

Unlike the last blog, this one has a more definitive direction so I’ll be posting more often, especially for the translated project. I don’t want it to become yet another dead project. I’d hate to increase the workload for the fine folks at Raising the Dead (Hi Cyrojen and Co.!!).

So, here’s the plan (for now):

Yomuin-san wa Yuusha ja Arimasen node will be updated at least one chapter a month. I don’t believe in putting up MTL crap so it will be done by hand. As mentioned on the translations page, this is a one man show and most of my effort will be on my own stories so if I have the time I’ll do more but I won’t make a greater commitment than that. Yes, I know it’s slow but at least someone will be working on the story and it will be a decent translation. If you want it to come along faster, feel free to contact me.

Original works will be updated as I write, edit and proofread them. I don’t have a consistent schedule for them as of yet since some of them are being re-written since the older forms of them aren’t something I really want to see the light of day. I can say that they should be updated more frequently since more effort will be going into writing them. I hope you’ll give them a chance while waiting for the next chapter of Youmin-san.

I’ll post other things from time to time here as it strikes my fancy. You can be sure to find the most recent updates on what is happening here under the Messages area.

Thanks for reading, and I hope to hear from ya in the future.