Another Chunk Down
Just finished laying out the Semi-New Short Story section and then populated it with information. At the time, I can’t find a graphic I need for one short story Solution; I haven’t eaten in nine hours, so I am taking a break. Once I have that graphic, that page will be done. I will be taking the site down sometime tonight to rework the landing page for short stories. I will have to get to manuscripts tomorrow, as I am exhausted right now and not sure if I will have much gas left.
Read MoreCrunching Along
The databases have been cleaned up so browsing should be faster for the next six months until I have to perform more routine maintenance – nothing like database spring cleaning to really knock you down into an exhausted state. After getting the rest of the short stories prepped for the website (I had a lot more than I imagined, and two are still pending at two separate magazines (therefore they won’t be on the site until I get the rejection letters)), I decided a cup of coffee and a run was in order to spike my energy levels. Threw in a mango and it looks like I should be able to lift a car and climb a mountain. Instead of using my wonderful spike in energy to throw a car and fulfill my life long dream of being called the hulk, I will be sitting at my desk pounding down lemon and mineral water and trying to get the entire site reorganized. I decided I will have to do the graphic work for the pieces later, I can’t switch from IT and web UI to Graphic Designer without going insane. Alright, time to build out the Semi-New Short Story page template and populate it! See you guys on the other side!
Read MoreBeen Awhile
At the time, I am currently trying to find a career that isn’t in the writing world as I still do not have representation. Because of this, I have been dropping certain things from my schedule – updating the website is one of those things. I am still writing; I am beginning work on the sixth manuscript because I am a writer, and therefore, I will never drop working on novels from my life. However, I have receded all current submissions of short stories that have been with magazines for over six months. But why would you do that? You need publication credits to get an agent to represent you?
Simple, I want to published these semi-new pieces on my website as they are outdated compared to my current writing style but are better than the current work available on this website. I want you all to have access to more of my writing. Perhaps, I have become jaded but I want my writing to be accessible not locked in a submission manager for over six months. So, today I am going to get this ol’ site back up to a more current portfolio of my work.
Read MoreCommitment to your Privacy
Over the last week, I decided to spend some money and improve my website. This was for two reasons: 1) make it more accessible with quicker load times, and 2) increase my audience’s privacy. In order to do that, I upgraded my hosting server with more “stuff” (super technical term) to handle requests and queries. Also, I have a few more tricks to improve the speed of delivery but didn’t enable these tricks, because they will probably take a hefty time configuring and testing. If you feel it is moving to slow, go to the Contact Me page, send me an email, and I will enable them.
But here are the great improvements to you!
Read MoreWebsite Modifications and Tesla’s Travels
I have made some modifications to the site’s categories. I removed all the of the different short story categories, because they were outdated and not really used. Categorizing my work is probably the hardest thing to do. Also, I added a few categories, the main one is the Project’s Progress Update. This is for manuscripts or short stories. Over summer, I will be releasing a update weekly on Sunday (this is the first one). These updates will show progress on what I am currently working on. For example, this shows the change in the word count for Tesla’s Travels.
Water, tea, tea, water, water, water coffee, water, water, tea, tea, tea, water, water, coffee, and then water till bed was my drinking schedule yesterday. That led to a high level of production and pushed the current status of Tesla’s Travels to 14415 words. I didn’t get a chance to work on the project during the week because of Time, and work. However, I set Saturday aside and got a ton done. (Insert information about Sunday’s progress).
Read MoreUpdates to the Manuscript Section
Upgrades have been made to the manuscript page. I rewrote the manuscript page’s main section, added the Journey to God subpage, and updated the Primo Capite and the Others subpage. These updates should clean up all these pages. It is weird, I want to share information about these manuscripts, but I don’t want to give away anything important. So expect the manuscript section to be a revolving door with different information as I try to nail down the perfect blurb.
On a secondary note, I have sent a treatment of Journey to God to the agent who sent me the personalized rejection letter. It took me awhile to get all the necessary parts in place. Also, it was weird handwriting a letter that required perfect grammar and spelling. In the end, I realized my handwriting is atrocious but my spelling and grammar are solid.
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