Not one but two!
Gothic Blue
Suite Seventeen
Thursday, 28 September 2006
no more foofing
Since I finished the first draft of Suite Seventeen last week, I've been mainly foofing about and achieving very little. I haven't done a scrap of writing, although I have done a bit of web design, so I suppose I shouldn't be too hard on myself - because at least that's something creative. And I have expanded my horizons a bit on the computer. I've set up a MySpace, I've uploaded more photos to Flickr and learnt how to do things there, and I've even posted a new message on my sadly neglected Amazon Connect profile. I've also installed Zone Alarm, for a bit of extra computer security and I've been experimenting with del.icio.us for saving my favourites. At heart, all these things are displacement activities, but sort of useful ones too, so I don't feel too disgusted with myself for spending time on them.
I've also set this blog up here. For a long time, I've been not feeling too keen on Bravejournal... for several reasons. The limitations of the sidebar, the limitations of layout and look, the infuriating advertising in the posting area which frankly gets on my wick and tends to muck with my browser. Now, as I had a pro account there, I simply don't think there should be any ads at all, but there are, and I've had enough of them... I have toyed with setting up Wordpress on my own webspace, but even with broadband, the login process takes a ludicrously long time. Something to do with the way the program talks to my ISP... Life's too short to spend that time just twiddling my thumbs waiting. Which brings me back to Blogger, the blogging platform I began my very first blogging efforts on... I'd always been put off by the necessity to get in and footle with the template to add links and stuff to the sidebar, but now I've discovered beta Blogger, those shortcomings are no more. Admittedly it is beta, and a tiny bit cranky here and there, but generally, I'm well pleased with it so far. And I think most of the crankiness is due to my 'puter needing a tad more memory. But that's something I'm planning to correct in the v. near future with a little trip to PC World for a bit of RAM therapy.
Anyway, all this is just more foofing, innit?
Today, I will be mainly:
I hope to do a few other bits and bobs too...
I've also set this blog up here. For a long time, I've been not feeling too keen on Bravejournal... for several reasons. The limitations of the sidebar, the limitations of layout and look, the infuriating advertising in the posting area which frankly gets on my wick and tends to muck with my browser. Now, as I had a pro account there, I simply don't think there should be any ads at all, but there are, and I've had enough of them... I have toyed with setting up Wordpress on my own webspace, but even with broadband, the login process takes a ludicrously long time. Something to do with the way the program talks to my ISP... Life's too short to spend that time just twiddling my thumbs waiting. Which brings me back to Blogger, the blogging platform I began my very first blogging efforts on... I'd always been put off by the necessity to get in and footle with the template to add links and stuff to the sidebar, but now I've discovered beta Blogger, those shortcomings are no more. Admittedly it is beta, and a tiny bit cranky here and there, but generally, I'm well pleased with it so far. And I think most of the crankiness is due to my 'puter needing a tad more memory. But that's something I'm planning to correct in the v. near future with a little trip to PC World for a bit of RAM therapy.
Anyway, all this is just more foofing, innit?
Today, I will be mainly:
- uploading a fab new cover image for a web client
- taking an initial look at proofs for my story Public Domain, which arrived yesterday
- uploading an extract of Gothic Blue to my PortiaDaCosta.com web site
- maybe even setting up another blog, for posting extracts to... [got this idea from above mentioned client
I hope to do a few other bits and bobs too...
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
Gothic Blue
Today I was all set to upload an extract of Gothic Blue to my PortiaDaCosta.com web site, but the best laid plans of mice and erotic authors didn't pan out... Instead, I futzed about with the layout for that site [on my own computer, no changes at the site yet], then spent ages reading Romantic Times, and conversing via email with a mate about the reviews there... and then I finished off by spending ages playing with this blog.
But tomorrow, I promise I will upload that extract! I think it'll be the prologue, which tells how the poor accursed Count Andre Von Kastel gets himself into a terrible pickle!
If you think this cover image looks familiar, by the way, you may have seen it here. Many thanks to my buddy Saskia for the link.
But tomorrow, I promise I will upload that extract! I think it'll be the prologue, which tells how the poor accursed Count Andre Von Kastel gets himself into a terrible pickle!
If you think this cover image looks familiar, by the way, you may have seen it here. Many thanks to my buddy Saskia for the link.
my lost Boy
Apparently, I can upload photos to this blog via Flickr, so what better piccie to try it out with than this lovely one of the late, and very much lamented Boy. He was such a sweetie.
my first post at wendyportia
This is my first post at this new blog I'm trying out. Not much to say, because I'm having a bit of a mare of a day and I'm not achieving much. If this beta Blogger system works out, I may well move my entire blog here, because it seems as if you can do more with this new Blogger in terms of putting goodies in the side bar... Bravenet is useless on that score, as you can only put text links and not piccies and text and other bits and bobs...
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