The Future of Writing As We Go

[DukeNukem 2417]

SO. As you all might've heard, Discord is being idiotic about age verification and the like, and as I've been primarily posting the latest bits of WAWG on Discord, it looks a bit like things might come to a premature end for the story.

Well, looks can be deceiving. I'm nowhere near done, and WAWG isn't going anywhere.

...let me rephrase that. WAWG isn't going away any time soon.

Depending on the solutions found to the issue, and what happens when March rolls around, WAWG will continue either here via a MegaNZ link, the replacement server created to make up for the Discord server, or the Discord server itself. The story doesn't end until I say it does, and I'm not about to drop it just because a bunch of corpos decided they wanted to jump on a bandwagon that's going off a cliff. I look forward to continuing the saga, and I look forward to comments, compliments and constructive criticisms.

A few things to keep in mind: WAWG shares a universe with everything else I've written, but what appears in WAWG takes precedence. If something in a chapter of WAWG contradicts something from what I wrote earlier, trust the newer material. Also, WAWG is alternate history fiction, in addition to its ASFR elements. That means people who've died in "our timeline" may very well be alive in this one. You've probably spotted a few mentions of this kind of thing already, and thought nothing of it. Well, now you know why they're there.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to fling me a PM. I'm also still looking for a new lyricist for the Starlet Dolls, and any questions about that will also be answered via PM (it'd take too long to go into the details here).

Anyway. The TL:DR version is that I'm not done, Writing As We Go will continue, and I look forward to entertaining all you wonderful people with my writing for a long while to come.

[handle2]

I'm counting on Age Verification crashing and burning due to the very untenable nature of solutions to date for the problem.
This has not been my first brush with the tech in question: Discord is using something that used to be called Socrates a few years back, when it was implemented in Second Life to keep kiddies from raiding the adult sims. Good noble intentions. There were just a few major issues:

1. The system was too US centric and failed to account for its use on a globally accessed system - many adults were locked out of adult content due to an inability to produce US credentials proving adulthood. Oh, they had plenty of paper to prove they were adults where they lived.it just didn't dovetail to prior accumulated data about adults in America.
2. Too much of the data was publicly accessible elsewhere. As a result, many people started faking their credentials simply by finding US credentials screenshotted elsewhere and submitting them in place. We had an entire battallion of WTC Tower bombers named Mohammed Atta because of this, which I suspect is where the shoe dropped on cancelling the system.
3. Many jusridictions have severe privacy requirements and restrictions on sharing biodata or local credentials, which would have barred people from accessing the verification process legally and/or required onerous data storage/accuracy standards Socrates couldn't keep.

TLDR: Good intentions, poorly thought out dataset and methodologies scuttled data verification once - if they weren't planned for and mitigated/corrected away this time, we are going to have a repeat of the same fuck-ups, and hence the same cancellations of the tech that happened a decade ago elsewhere happening right now and here on Discord. It's on them, really.

[DukeNukem 2417]

....but how do you feel about my work?



Seriously, good post, but I was expecting at least some remark on WAWG.

[handle2]

You are being creative for yourself, and regardless of the true value of said work in the final form, it is good that you are there. That is the point of putting yourself out there, and I thank you for sharing.

In other good news, Discord is canning the Persona Identities system after it transpired that it was about as well secured as that stash of catnip you kept in a glass bottle next to your cat's personal bed. That does not mean Discord will not try to replace it with another verification system, but usually, this is how people eventually weasel out of Age Verification and drop it everytime it's been attempted. Fingers crossed, dude.

[handle2]

Also: I think you write better than me. I meander too much, and my current story has started branching wildly into substories and time jumps (you can already see it in some of my previous work - I have serious issues doing plots that go in chronolinear fashion). There's also the awkwardness that it dangerously skirts certain Fembotcentral rules even if the character with issues is technically a shota baba (Japanese for "looks like a kid, is actually way old enough to enter 'auto-catfish grandfather' territory")

I think you're in safer hands long term, kiddo.

Keep writing.

[DukeNukem 2417]

Will do. I follow the Lynchian method (as in David Lynch, writer of such classics as Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr. and Eraserhead), which is to come up with the scenes first and then create the "connective tissue", so to speak, as I get to them or the point where I have to bridge them. It even influenced the title of the story as a whole, so....yeah.

[handle2]

I believe the proper term is (and I may be channelling a bit of WH40k Fan Humor here)... "Mood Kindred"?

[Spaz]

Keep in mind, you can still freely post your stories on the wiki; no age verification checks.

[DukeNukem 2417]

Keep in mind, you can still freely post your stories on the wiki; no age verification checks.

I may end up doing that, but I'd have to post them myself with all the formatting and such intact. Also, the page count for each chapter in Book 3 has gone up, given the increase in character limits here on the forum (which is hilarious since I haven't direct-posted to the forum since Book 1).