Readers, I have been remiss in not saying anything here for the past three and a half months. Unfortunately, I can’t offer you any actual writing at the moment: We Sail Off To War is still in progress. It’s only a few solid evenings away of writing from the ending. I’d like to have the next entry posted on Thursday, but I know better than to say that and you know better than to trust me. Writing-wise, I’ve been embarked on two other projects: first, editing We Sail Off To War for possible e-book publication (which is looking pretty good), and second, working on a collaborative universe with a friend (I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but I will hint that I obtained two atlases from 1930 as research material).
In other news, I played Mass Effect 3, complained about the ending, moved on (but not without a measure of melancholy), started learning to play the hammered dulcimer, bought a Nook (the e-ink variety, not one of the tablets), discovered that Games Workshop does not release the Ciaphas Cain books in e-book form, decided to build a good-sized trebuchet this year (there may be pictures when it happens), bought rudder pedals and some other CH Products products to greatly enhance my flight simulation experience, developed a surprising fondness for children’s television show Phineas and Ferb, and probably did a lot of other stuff that didn’t make it over my threshold of easy recall.
Anyway, I hope to dive back into writing soon. It may well not be more of the fantasy series I started with, but in the end it’s my decision, so ha.
Hello, dear reader! There are great things afoot.
The first and most obvious is that the theme has changed to something still more minimalist than before. This is a consequence of the second: Many Words is now self-hosted via virtual private server, which is a fantastically cool technology. The second-and-a-half thing is that I’m now much more familiar with the workings of the Internet, and I figure that’s probably a good thing.
The third and best part of all of this is that I have a great deal more latitude in terms of organizational ability. There are some obvious changes already: the front page now has writing and writing only, and the category pages linked from the Archives page now go from oldest to newest and have first-sentence excerpts. I have some other ideas about navigation (such as splitting the part of the site where I babble into its own WordPress instance, maybe), post templates (where I give writing posts navigational links that skip blather), and some other things, but I’ve spent enough time on this for the moment— I’ll be writing in my Many Words time for the next few weeks, instead of hacking on WordPress.
There is one not-so-great thing afoot, too: your RSS feed links no longer work, which you may not discover for some time due to my irregular update pace.
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