I am not prepared to translate a light novel as I would need to get new tools to handle the intake of text. It’s not on my todo list, or pretty low if it’s on there. But, I do want a better binge reading experience for the webnovels I translate. So what am I to do? I chose to make up a novelization process I can follow that doesn’t involve scanning in light novel characters and retranslating a novel-sized body of text.

For June, I’m writing about the website, how it’s built, my rules for it, and some future improvements I’m working on.

I was going to write about how I edit chapters, but instead this month is all about extra chapters…

Birthday Month! Extra Chapters!

21 extra chapters over the month! Every weekend in May gets an extra chapter each day! Every day of the week of my birthday gets two extra chapters, see the table below for release dates.

Oops, I forgot to set this post out of draft, enjoy this belated re-introduction.

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So, I wanted to play with some new web technology, so I’m resurrecting this project. The Red Shinigami series has reasonably short chapters, so I’m breezing through them. When I’ve caught up to the manga or the first 50 (whichever comes first), I’ll drop the first 15 and then release daily until I’ve done the WN, hopefully.

So this month has been quiet. Haven’t gotten around to checking on NovelUpdates, since I’ve been busy with garden planning. I want to more than double the size of my garden this year, so I can grow a bunch of new plants to eat. Also, I was some level of sick in the second week of this month. It’s been a long while since I got real sick, like throwing up, nose running, coughing, etc.

So I’m starting a new series that isn’t being translated on NovelUpdates already! Also, most of the chapters are shorter than a short Slow Life chapter!

Well, the first series was for my own entertainment more than anything else, so I don’t consider it too important that I can’t put it on NovelUpdates. Even if I keep to the normal schedule, I won’t finish it til sometime in 2022, but that’s better than 2026!

New scheduler (v3) is working, but I’m still not always getting things done by saturday night. I’ll try to improve.

So after a hiatus to rebuild a backlog and change the dialogue format, I’m back to releasing chapters.

I’m looking at bringing in remark commenting, I’ll run them on a Lightsail server. It will be as small as possible to reduce my costs. I don’t want the comments to load by default, as I’m trying to keep the site loading as fast and small as possible.

So now we’ve made it into October. I’ve gotten myself organized enough to keep pushing out 9 chapters a week, somehow. Sometime I’ll need to get more ahead of the queue so I can have a full week of reviewed posts on hand. I’m not going to look at a new series until December, but I’d like to add a new series on January 1, 2021. We’ll see what can happen then.

Hopefully this month is the month I spend editing and publishing, with little time spent on messing with the website. I spent the end of August getting the first chapters ready, but more time was spent getting the website setup so I don’t need to spend time on it. I edit each chapter, give it a few days or few chapters, then come back to review it. I fix any problems I notice, then mark it as ready to go out on the next free day.

Started work on the first series backlog. Setup the website with a Cloudfront CDN, easy deployment, etc. Most time was spent on setup.

I got tired of waiting so long for series I liked or not being able to read certain series. Obviously I could just sit down and read the Google Translated version, but I want to fix the problem, not put a band aid on it. Blame open source, their refrain is ‘If you don’t like it, fork it!’. I can’t fork the existing translation, but I can start from scratch on my own!