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Heartbreak
So yesterday, I received a message from the woman I went on a date with a few weeks ago. She doesn’t want a relationship. I never even considered that she might pull out the friend card. I wasn’t ready for it. I curled up on the couch and cried. But I did send a message…
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Did a bit of tweaking to the theme, so I’m now on a lighter colour scheme, but not a blinding white. 🙂
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Changed the ‘normal’ paragraph tag in CSS to give a space of 10 above and below paragraphs (so 20 in total between them). Just one of those fiddly things, I guess. 🙂
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Depression aka MDD, and ‘mana’
Read this article by Brad Wardell, CEO and founder of Stardock, for a useful explanation of Major Depressive Disorder. I think that mana is a useful way of expressing what it is that people need and use up as a result of activities or events in their lives. Without it, your mental faculties are as…
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The first bit of No Way Home Part 1 is up. This is a rewrite from the ground up, and I’d like you to check it out and offer your thoughts as I go. I think I have an idea how I want it to go, but I’m willing to keep an open mind, especially since…
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I’ve been working on the WordPress Like button problem a bit today. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t want to play nice – when it hangs, it renders the forward/back links on my pages unusable. So, I’ve disabled it for now. Good news, is that I added some custom CSS to make the share buttons look more like they…
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Taking the chess analogy further
If you haven’t read the previous post on this topic, you can find it here. Last time, I wrote about how the game of chess is analogous to the writing process. Think of the chess board, with its alternating coloured squares, as a landscape in which your story is set. Or if you like, think…
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I added an old draft of a scene from Chapter 8 to the site for editing. I feel like working on it, so may as well see where that takes me! I’ll unhide the text when I’m happy with it. 🙂
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Help me reach 100 signatures!
So, as some of you might have read, I started a petition on Change.org this week. Since it hasn’t yet attracted any signatures, I thought I would draw attention to it again.