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Annoying Autobio, Sister Site, Site Info

The Progress Progresses

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Nothing too major happened today. I made progress making sure everything’s functioning on the Sister site, nearing the halfway point. Each review seems to need a touch up here or there. Such is the nature of the beast.

No one’s ever going to read the reviews, but it’ll look nice waiting for people to come.

I started an outline for a novel. I hope to get twelve or so done by the end of the year. Won’t stress if it doesn’t happen.

The actual novel I finished and am reworking hasn’t been touch. Tomorrow, maybe.

A Month of Horror, Annoying Autobio, NaNoWriMo, Sister Site, Site Info

The Absence of NaNoWriMo and Other Ponderings

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The NaNoWriMo site died a few years back, which depresses me to no end. A good chunk of my life was spent trying and failing to get a novel out of that event, and the moment I do, the whole thing dies.

I can do that on my own, of course. Thought about doing it this year. Events have conspired against me.

So, being insane, I had a thought.

A year of NaNoWriMos.

More later. Unless I get sense.

In other news, I continue to work on making sure the Sister Site’s reformatting is in top condition.

I worked initially with Grok to get the CSS code to work the way I wanted to up to the point I felt the AI was doing the same thing over and over again and I was too dense to notice. I then quit that to put in the code myself, checking each part to make sure it worked.

Managed to fix a problem Grok seemed unable to do. Which was nice.

I now go through the reviews, making sure everything is in working order. There are also little errors in writing that need fixed, too.

That finished (or maybe sooner) I go back to transferring Month of Horror Reviews into WCR reviews.

And that’s how I be.

A Month of Horror, Annoying Autobio, Sister Site, Site Info

Using the Writer’s Journal… as a Journal?!

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The problem with writing in this blog every day is coming up with things to say for that day. On the one hand, Stream of consciousness writing can’t hurt my real writing. On the other hand, this might be the reason why this journal has never taken off.

Almost wrote “failed”. Twenty odd years effort, no constant audience, that’s a definition of failure. However I firmly believe my writing’s improved doing this, so that dog don’t hunt.

Anyway, the thought is when I don’t have a definite thought, I mention what I did in writing up until I hit send on the post, and in a manner that might interest someone who reads it down the road a piece.

Even if that someone is just me.

Today, I work on the sister site, trying to get some bugs out of the CSS. I’m also going to go through review by review, making sure everything works right and is formatted correctly.

As this is a tedious process, I will also rewrite some of these Month of Horror reviews to more fit the sister site, thus creating a buff and, in theory, make it easier to do long form reviews. I have three done now.

And that’s how I is.

On Writing, Site Info

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One more year under the belt, and again, very little to show for it. Blogging ain’t the art it used to be, and with AI it’s only getting worse.

But this should be a place for me to practice said art.

So let’s change things up.

Every day (ish) I intend to look up a Writing Prompt. It could be from WordPress’s offerings. It could be me asking Grok or such like for an idea. It could be from one of the Writing Prompt Books I have. Any where, anything. I’ll take it and write let’s say 8,000 words.

Who knows. Maybe I’ll even get better at writing.

It’ll definitely make this more of a writing journal.

Annoying Autobio, Sister Site

The State of Cull

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Last week a God damn mouse nibbled its way through one of my monitors’ power cable. One foot nudge later and I’m down to a single screen. As I’m used to two by this point, I found the situation less than optimal.

Thus the meager funds were depleted for a new one. As I was going spend happy, I bought a new printer. The monitor was to arrive Sunday, the printer near the end of the month.

To my delight, the monitor arrived Saturday. I spent the weekend fiddling with cables until I became sick of fiddling with cables. So I canceled my printer order from one place and made a new one at another. More expensive, but I pick it up tomorrow.

My intent is to hook up the printer and finish with messing with the cables. No doubt more headaches await on that score, but hey! My life.

Once that is done, I’m printing up what I have of the novel’s second draft for my Alpha readers. I’m working more on the second draft. I will finish this bad boy. Hopefully before Spring.

Ha. Ha. Ha.

I have a buffer of two movies for the Sister Site. I have thoughts on one or two more. I need underscore italics bold all caps NEED to write at least one long review. I’m sick of the short ones.

And that’s today’s report. God, it’s good to give a full one.