Well, one more minor change to that.
Please also be sure to emphasize "this". That's why it's still in bold text here.
For the commissioner, "Hollow" is an all-encompassing term used to describe the way he feels, thinks, and acts. I consider being Hollow to be the same as being autistic, and will be presenting it that way in future stories, but is not autism as such to the commissioner of *this* story, because he would prefer that to remain ambiguous.
Please also be sure to emphasize "this". That's why it's still in bold text here.
It's actually marked by asterisks here instead of being boldface text, because I have the default colors for <b>, <i>, and <u> overridden in this theme's style declarations, and LiveJournal keeps putting a hard return (new line) after "this" if I use <div style="font-weight: bold;">[some text]</div>.
Sorry for doing this to you, but now that I've slept and regained some of my presence of mind, there's one more change I'd like you to make to that comment.
Once again, I commissioned and paid for it, so it's my story, and I'd rather the word ("Hollow") wasn't clearly defined. In other stories, yes, but in this one, no, because it's mine. Hopefully you haven't made that change yet, and I'm pretty sure this is how I want it to read now.
For the commissioner, "Hollow" is an all-encompassing term used to describe the way he feels, thinks, and acts. I consider being Hollow to be the same as being autistic, and will be presenting it that way in future stories, but is not autism as such in *this* story, because the commissioner would prefer that to remain ambiguous.
Once again, I commissioned and paid for it, so it's my story, and I'd rather the word ("Hollow") wasn't clearly defined. In other stories, yes, but in this one, no, because it's mine. Hopefully you haven't made that change yet, and I'm pretty sure this is how I want it to read now.
Of course, he still has to accept those changes himself, but I hope he does without any further difficulty, as I have to leave for work in less than an hour, and would really like this to be done and over with. The only reason I can see it being rejected is because it essentially says "What he wants isn't what I wanted", but that's exactly why we're having this problem. Make me out to be a bad guy (note that I said "a", not "the") if you must, which is why all of these messages have been posted in my entries here over the past couple days - for anybody else to see how this played out. For all I know he could've done the same thing himself, or maybe the reason he's suddenly so willing to comply with my request(s) is because I'm posting these publicly (I haven't mentioned doing so to him though), but one way or the other, as before, I'm almost certain the second message in italic text above is something I could live with.
As for other news, not much else has happened today. I woke up at 3 thanks to my alarm clock, to get ready for tomorrow and such, had a roll of "Sweet Tarts Shockers" candies and a can of pop for breakfast, plan to get the free donut that I "won" last night before work, probably with a tea since I'd need something to drink with it, and... that is all. No packages in the mail (still), although the person I bought those batteries from responded to say that they'd just gotten notification that due to China's Spring Festival, the number of packages being shipped has increased dramatically, thus the delay. I was given a link to the tracking page too, but the last update to it came on the 2nd of February, and says Departured from SFC location, 02/02/2011 09:20, Shenzhen. So I don't know. I could probably make do with what I have right now, and contact them again at the middle of March if they're still not here, but it'd be nice if they were. I do need to respond to them though, and also respond to the person I got the icon from that I used in my previous entry, so I'm off to do those, and hopefully I come home from work to a response to the messages in the cut that says "I've hidden the old comments, and posted a new one with what you said in your last message". But yes, I have other things to do first~
