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Hello everyone, I wanted to give an update on my progress. I went and remastered Ryujin and the Tales of Heroes using Grammarly and past writing experiences to eliminate errors and typos. The story is better than ever now. Ryujin is the sequel to Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes. If you haven't read it, then I recommend checking it out. :)

Ayida Weddo still needs a full revision/remaster but that will be until next year. I want to write again. Gabatrix: The Silver Rain for upcoming Halloween and Opet and the Tales of Heroes are planned for this year.

I have had to disable the voting for Taweret and the Tales of Heroes as well due to lower scores. It is ironic for the story that actually helps lead into Gabtrix that Taweret is the least viewed upon on this site. I have had others accuse it of being a drug feast or femdom by the use of drugs which is way off, especially for the main characters. The Yuki in my stories produces a powerful chemical during their heat cycle. It is basically like a powerful aphrodisiac that causes a person to lock onto them. No way do I have it where the men are enslaved to the female Yuki as a result. If anything, the female Yuki have an issue where if they don't have sex during their heat cycle, it can actually end up killing them. In other words, characters love and treat each other with respect in that book.

I am still in debate with the voting. Right now, I am not pleased with the voting system on Storiesonline as mentioned in my last blog. Understand I am not upset towards the general audience but the few that degrade it. I use the voting system to get a brief gage on what people think but that in itself doesn't do much. To me, constructive feedback is ten times better. My stories fit into certain areas/niches and if one person doesn't like it, then they either leave or vote down and walk away for the next person to see it. In certain degrees, the voting system can determine the next person from reading the story entirely just based on its score. A few trolls can destroy that process of a writer's work. A bad score might as well be telling others to not bother reading your stories. That is not fair and I don't tolerate it especially when others are struggling to become better and better writers themselves.

It would be like this, the day of the elections show up. You have done a lot of research towards your candidates spending a month deciphering who would be the best candidate as a leader. You cast your ballot and walk away but the next person has done no research. He or she then looks at the candidates' faces and then cast a ballot based on how they look. This would completely undermine the election system as a whole and destroy your work and research on the best candidate for leadership. I believe that there are constructive voters but a few bad people can ruin it very quickly.

I went ahead and removed the "Rape" tag from Gabtrix: The Violet Wave since I feel it isn't enough of a scene in Chapter 5 to make it a rape scene. The "Implied Rape" in the description will remain though. That being said, please read the disclaimers before reading my stories. It gives a more detailed description of what is going to come up in my story. I still believe that some people are not doing that and then vote the story based strictly on the tags. Only one story in all the stories truly has a rape scene (more like a non-consensual) and that is Ryujin.

I don't have to beat this over and over again. My presumptions are that people don't like rape (who doesn't?) in my stories. I don't encourage it and don't try to bring a thrill to it. I use the term "Implied Rape" so that the audience understands that a character was raped but the scene is not entirely depicted in the story. A character might have been assaulted but that is to drive the story and not to actually promote it. However, it is under my belief that people see the tag and downvote my stories without even reading it. If that is the case, then I will keep the voting disabled forever for the sake of abuse by the voters.

With all that said though, I have received a lot of support from individuals. I wanted to give thanks to those people for constructive feedback in my last blog post. In reality, I receive a lot of good feedback (far more than bad) and I don't let the few get to me. In fact, I have actually received a lot of support from others and actually had a fan donate money to make the book cover for the upcoming Opet and the Tales of Heroes. Pretty cool, eh? :)

As always, I have the link for my Patreon. If you wish to support me then you can. A little bit goes a long ways and makes the universe get bigger and bigger. Happy reading to all.

https://www.patreon.com/TheUniverseofCMed

Among one of the things I have begun to notice upon waking up each morning to continue writing and editing my stories, is the process in which work can be damaged and destroyed by the actions of other people.

This process is probably known by many and that is zero-bombing or troll voting. It is something that I have been reading up on the blogs of other writers and the challenges that other writers, movie makers, and animators face every day. The idea is that the first people to vote are usually the ones that simply vote down, regardless of the amount work that the person put forth into their project. This can cause other people to become discouraged (in certain degrees) in looking at the works because there is such a low score on the project/works itself.

It is my belief that everyone should be praised for their work. This site alone consists of numerous story writers that devote their hard work and time to writing stories. It is something that does not happen overnight. I alone, at the moment that you are reading this, have spent two years writing. I can go back and see the differences of my own writing from day one to two years later. I still make mistakes, but you get better at spotting them. I can look at others that are just getting started in the process and understand the pain and struggle that they are going through in making a story.

Within a moment's notice, a few people can disrupt that entire process. The art is sickening at best. I can acclaim cases where I just upload a story onto a website. The entire book requires at least ten hours of reading and immediately within the first hour, there is a negative downvote. Did the reader perform a miracle and managed to stop time in reading my story to give it a constructive and thought out vote? No. They simply voted down without even reading it. This idea is simply known as zero bombing and it can cause more damage in the long run than the voting system is supposed to do.

I can also provide other examples. Among three of my stories, I have noticed a consistently negative vote aspect on stories where there is a "Rape" tag on it. I have to bring it into question. "Did the people come in and vote down after reading the story or were these people that read the tag and hit the downvote icon without reading the story?" In reality, the stories that I write are not even designed to bring any thrill to the idea of rape. Rape is horrific and it is never my intention to encourage it. I barely even have it in my stories. Even Gabatrix: The Violet Wave, the concept is an officer is assaulted by another. Before the deed is done, he is knocked out, causing the scene to skip almost completely. He manages to fight back the next time he is attacked and it helps drive the character's ambitions and thinking for the story. In Tales of Heroes, especially with Ryujin, I have to deal with historical concepts. Nero supposedly did horrible things to children. While I imply that he did it, I don't write the scene of events. Ryujin is perhaps the only book that truly has a non-consensual scene (separate from Nero) in it, but this is measured differently by everyone. Regardless, I have to place a tag/disclaimer to let the audience know of this.

I don't know if my readers, actually read the disclaimers that I put out for my stories, but I am getting the impression that some are not. They simply vote before reading. It is an attempt at sabotage.

In my library alone, I have been faced with this similar situation as well and while I have received a well amount of constructive feedback (positive feedback that addresses simple errors that need to be fixed and positive/general feedback in general), there are messages that I also receive that bring a lack of validity in the emailer. Be aware that I record these messages. Errors I go and fix, and those that attack me personally will be reported for harassment to the webmaster or other staff of Storiesonline. Be professional, please.

It is in my best interest to go ahead and disable the voting on a couple of my stories that have the concept of the "Rape" tag. Stories like Ryujin which, at the moment that you are reading this, I am currently remastering to fix the errors, I have disabled voting until the remaster is uploaded. Stories like Gabatrix: The Violet Wave will be disabled at least until the story is completely uploaded and the reader can have a better chance to read all of the story, and Ayida Weddo that also has "Implied Rape" will be disabled. Doing this is my only course of action.

Hello everyone, I figure that I give a short little update. I went and started uploading The Violet Wave. It is the third story of the Gabatrix Series.

My schedule is to remaster Ryujin and the Tales of Heroes next. It should be really more simple, but it will be tedious. I am using Grammarly to do a full sweep. Unlike Ariadne, I don't feel the need to be as overzealous in the act as Ryujin was written more recently as my writing improved. A good sweep of Grammarly should make it much better. After that, I will be working on two stories with hopefully Gabatrix: The Silver Rain being done before Halloween.

Like anything, constructive feedback is always welcome and as always, my Patreon is available if you want to help me out. :)

https://www.patreon.com/TheUniverseofCMed

Hello everyone,

I wanted to let all you guys know that I finished up a major revision/remastered Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes. After a year of writing and now with Grammarly to help me out, I went back and found numerous errors and typos on Ariadne, Ryujin, and Ayida-Weedo. I went and took the first step in getting Ariadne up to speed now. Some sentences were rewritten entirely, reread it to fix it, and cleared out the typos and grammatical errors. It is way better now than it ever was.

I have also uploaded the book cover for Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes. The artwork was done by Oouna that hand-painted the cover.

I will get back to Ryujin and Ayida Weedo but I need to keep focusing on Gabatrix and pushing it forward for now.

Hello everyone, I wanted to let everyone know that Gabatrix: The First Peace is now being put up. I wanted to thank everyone for the amount of positive and constructive feedback that I have been receiving. That feedback goes a long way in making a story even better and it helps encourage me to write more and more. Within less than a month, Gabatrix: Minerva received more views than Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes received in a year. Maybe that is a hint in the direction I should write. :)

That being said, this week has been a surgery week for me. I am in the process of getting out of the military. My schedule will be going back to what I need to focus on hard now. Now that I got Grammarly helping me out, I am going to do a full revision of Ariadne and the Tales of Heroes (Chapter 1- to completion) next. This is to clear out the massive amount of grammatical errors and typos that Ariadne has. My goal is to get Ariadne, Ryujin, Taweret, Gabatrix stories cleared up ultimately. Ariadne will be the first. Ariadne, Ryujin, and Ayida Weedo were written before I ever got Grammarly. I am well aware of the mess that I need to clean up in them.

But I am also trying to ensure that more Gabatrix gets written. After Gabatrix: The First Peace is Gabatrix: The Violet Wave (Violet as in purple not "The Violent Wave"). Once you get further in the reading, you will understand what the title is about. I have an artist that is still working on the Violet Wave and completing the Ryujin book cover.

I really enjoy writing Gabatrix. I am a big fan of science fiction shows. The Expanse, Firefly, Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG.....all of it inspired me to write the series (along with my own experiences in the Navy). I spend many hours watching scientific/space documentaries to call upon and drawing the concept art for Gabatrix. You really get a chance to learn about the universe around you and it is fascinating to learn. Anyways, I have a Patreon. If you wish to help me then you can. The money goes towards getting more concept art and book covers. Enjoy.

https://www.patreon.com/TheUniverseofCMed