I need something that shows off italics and bold-face type [My recent change reflects that priority] and is also easy on the eye [which my current choice is not].
Any recommendations from the blogosphere?
Paperback Writer vs. my WIPs
…and some publishing knowledge I gleaned from being in a writer’s club.
Be warned, this post contains excerpts of the Beatles’ song, Paperback Writer. Use of said lyrics is not intended to infringe on the copyright of the song, profits from any Beatle’s estate, or any other legal fiction you can cook up. This is done solely without profit for the purposes of entertainment without any expectation of monetary recompense whatsoever.
There. Legalese done with…
Read more »The Executive/Corporate Checklist
This information is pulled strictly out of my arse. By and large, it is not meant to be representative of the corporate atmosphere and is evidently extrapolated from what one statistical outlier[ie, not a White, Anglo-Saxon Male aged 18-35] can observe in her few encounters with the business world.
Executive Corporate Checklist [According to Me] to Making a New Image
[1] Phone billions of households when they are the most inconvenienced and tie the poor bastard who answered the phone up
Read more »This just in! Apple Corp == Intellectual Property Thieves!
I read new T&C very carefully, folks. And I was alarmed by this passage in the iCloud T&C:
“However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform such Content on the Service for the purpose for which the Content
Read more »I can't brain, today.
I have the dumb.
It’s been bought on by a combination of late nights and bad sleep, both through circumstances I can’t control (I’m a Mum, remember?).
I shall be working on tomorrow’s entry in the rare moments when cognisance presents itself. Slowly, so I don’t hurt my wrist. And possibly fuelled by an endless stream of caramel mochachinos.
Then again, given how weirdly poetic I get on sleep dep, I could
Read more »Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations....
Here, I tried to encapsulate what’s wrong with the economy as well as why folks who buy from corporations are protesting corporations. (Like there’s a viable alternative to buying from corporations…)
I think I nearly sprained my hand drawing this. I have teh fail. [Again, click the pic for the HUGE version]
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Less words typed == more time to rest my poor wrists. I think the scribble here pretty much says it all :) [Click for the HUGE version]
Less words typed == more time to rest my poor wrists.
I think the scribble here pretty much says it all :) [Click for the HUGE version]
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RTFM (Story!)
At the risk of borking my browser again (I don’t exactly have the best of computers) I am going to publish a novella here.
Cross your fingers.
Oyeah. RTFM stands for the techie-favourite acronym: Read The F[laming/expletive deleted] Manual. Also the most common advice to noobs encountering new technology.
RTFM
C M Weller
Dave groaned. On the upside, the painful part was over. On the downside, both his arms were now in permanent casts. More permanent than the
Read more »Good Boy (Story!)
This is one of the weird ones. And by “weird”, I mean one of the ones that dropped on me from the sky like a ton of bricks and threatened to burn a hole in my head until I wrote it down.
It ends in a weird place, but if I re-wrote it, it would inevitably turn into a novella and I would loose the short-story twist and fridge horror of it all.
Have at me… but gently. Tell
Read more »Whoops
Forgot to blog.
Story tomorrow. Embarrassment tonight.
Read more »An open letter to Copyright Extremists
WARNING: This post contains high levels of bile and snark. If you are allergic to, or cannot withstand either ingredients, please avoid exposure to this post.
(may contain traces of sarcasm)
Dear Morons,
Most of you are apparently unaware that copyright and copyright extremism is strangling your income. As a concerned cogniscant being, I thought it best to make you aware of just how mind-bogglingly fuckarse stupid you’re being about the whole thing.
Firstly, copyright began softly after Gutenberg revolutionized
Read more »WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
I’d like to see that island [I think it’s off Africa] where all the weird alien plants grow. And possibly a lot of other places off the beaten track. If I’m going to go anywhere, I want it to be a fantastical and unique experience.
Read more »Well, shit.
I hurt my wrists playing silly buggers on the computer (a very popular game!) so there’s no log entry today.
Bleh.
Read more »To cloud or not to cloud...
Any Apple fan worth their salt knows that Apple’s bringing the Cloud to the plebs, but what does it mean for writers like me?
Pros, cons and musings below the cut.
Pro: Convenience. A document or WIP [that’s Work In Progress for the unenlightened] can be accessed anywhere by any device, so long as you know the password.
Con: The potentiality for Fic Griefers. People who hack into your cloud just to mess with your work and cause
Read more »The Zen of Clean-Up Day
Or, perhaps, the Tao of it.
Cleaning by not-cleaning is by no means as effective as, say, cleaning by actually cleaning.
I have dithered about for as long as I could. I went shopping for some essentials, I had my eyes tested [Interesting photographs!] and also had lunch.
Now I really have to sweep the floor.
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