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| Monday, May 28th, 2012 | | 8:12 am |
| | Friday, May 25th, 2012 | | 8:23 am |
| | Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 | | 11:02 pm |
The meme: Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile." • I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity • Update your journal with the answers to the questions • Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions Answers below for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) xjenavivex1. Do you have a favorite piece of your own writing; and if you do, why and does it change? I suppose that depends on what one means by "piece of writing" -- scenes, or complete stories. Scenes I have a LOT of favorites and it would be very hard to pick just one. For entire stories... of the published or to-be-published stuff, Phoenix Rising would be my favorite, I think, though it's a close contest between that and Grand Central Arena. It does change over time because I'm getting more chances to write and publish stories and (I like to think) they're gettting overall better with time. Some SCENES remain favorites -- for instance, I still love the scene in Digital Knight which ends "... Verne Domingo had come calling." Heck, there's still some scenes from my fanfic that I think are really good. 2. How do you feel about the aspects of writing that are not putting/editing words on the page? Depends on WHICH aspects. Hard SF sometimes is a pain in the butt because I have to do lots of research on some topic which, by itself, may not interest me that much but that's vital to the story, and I know SOMEONE will be reading it and telling me where I am going badly wrong. I don't MIND being wrong, but I want to know ahead of time WHEN I'm ignoring the laws of physics, and that takes work. Other stuff, like working out the world for GCA, is mostly fun, because I don't have to worry about some twit telling me that the Arena doesn't really work that way. 3. What is the significance of your username and your default icon? I've always wondered about both. Back in the Ancient Days of the Internet -- 1977 -- I was one of the best programmer/hackers on the local network I was a part of. At the time I had a number of handles but they were all story-derived, as were most other people's. I wanted a new handle, one that would denote the concept that I didn't generally attack people, but it was a terrible idea to actually BOTHER me because it would end badly for you. Eventually, I chose the name "Sea Wasp", the common name of the cubomedusa or box jellyfish Chironex Fleckeri. The main icon is a picture of that particular creature, taken from one of the color plates in the magnificent 3-volume work Poisonous and Venomous Marine Animals by Bruce Halstead. 4. Has there been a writing project that you wanted to finish but for some reason had to trunk? What happened? Will you come back to it? Several, actually. One of them I picked up some time later and the first part of it is coming out this year as Phoenix Rising. Another, Demons of the Past, I've written and rewritten something like five times. I've finally written the first two of three volumes of Demons and I hope to find a publisher for it so I can justify working on the third and last. I started work on a book set fairly far in the future of the Jason Wood universe, but realized I couldn't really write it unless and until I finished certain other stories, so that one will probably stay untouched until all those stories are finished or nearly finished. 5. How goes the Podcast adventure? Haven't finished one. I'm still trying to figure out how to actually record and edit the sound properly so that it will sound good, and then I have to figure out how to package and send it out, so to speak. | | 8:13 am |
| | Monday, May 21st, 2012 | | 2:28 pm |
Self-important self-published author self-destructs.
As seen multiple places around my FLists, an author who thinks having a lot of twits... er, Twitter followers behind him means that he somehow ISN'T self published, and ISN'T subject to any other rules, including definitions of words in dictionaries and TOS agreements and basic courtesy as well. This is what not to do. | | 6:46 am |
| | Friday, May 18th, 2012 | | 1:02 pm |
| | Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | | 6:54 am |
| | Monday, May 14th, 2012 | | 11:24 pm |
| | Friday, May 11th, 2012 | | 7:02 am |
New Post on my Site...
This one is the first in my series of reviews (which will include anime, TV, books, movies, and video games) called On My Shelves. Up today is the little-known anime Metal Fighter Miku! | | Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 | | 10:31 pm |
| | 1:23 pm |
Note that my site has Project Wonderful!
That means if you have something -- an ebook (or physical book), an Etsy site, a webcomic, whatever -- that you'd like to advertise, you can do so on my site (probably very cheap!) on Project Wonderful. I've used Project Wonderful myself and been able to advertise on many different websites for very small amounts of money (i.e., my ad budget total was $100, and I got many months of use out of that). Currently there are NO bids in the US and Canada regions and only a few in the other two. There's a total of five ad boxes -- one half-banner near the top of the page, and four square boxes towards the bottom. | | Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 | | 8:59 am |
New Website!
I now have a new website, at the same address as the old one: http://www.grandcentralarena.com ! It is designed to allow me to update it much more easily, so that (A) I don't have to bother someone else to do the work, and (B) I won't be so intimidated by the effort that I'll decide NOT to. There's plenty of stuff already up there, and the blank pages will be filled in. I plan on doing some form of update every day for a while, at least. | | Monday, May 7th, 2012 | | 7:18 am |
| | Saturday, May 5th, 2012 | | 4:16 pm |
| | Friday, May 4th, 2012 | | 11:25 am |
TVTropes kerfluffle?
Recently I heard some people saying there was a major shakeup at TVTropes, with the comments being basically "The site owner's deleting everything he doesn't like". Anyone out there know anything? Given how TVTropes had been designed around the idea that there was no such thing as notability, no need for cites, etc., it would be terribly damaging to its usefulness if someone's taken it upon themselves to eliminate large chunks wholesale (as opposed to occasionally taking down NSFW material). | | Tuesday, May 1st, 2012 | | 11:00 pm |
Coming in June: THRESHOLD in MMPB
Yes, it's been two years, but Threshold is finally coming out in paperback. Those of you who wanted paper, but didn't want to cough up the twenty-five (or maybe 14 on Amazon) bucks? Your time has come. The sequel to Threshold, Portal, is also in the pipe; they haven't given me an actual date but I'm guessing early 2013. | | Wednesday, April 25th, 2012 | | 11:09 pm |
About podcasts...
I have a little Podcast studio that I've finally started playing with. I haven't a clue what I'm doing, but I have figured out how to get it all connected and get sound to go from the provided microphone into my computer (which has Audacity as the recording/editing app). What I know NOTHING about is what to do with it afterwards, and what the expectations of people hearing podcasts ARE. I don't listen to them myself -- I never got into talk radio stuff and I can't listen to people reading books on tape -- but I know a lot of people do, so I need to have some idea of what people expect. My plan is to read my books, a chapter or two per podcast, and maybe intersperse with particular facts or anecdotes about each sequence in the book (for instance, in Grand Central Arena I would mention that the protagonist's full name, Ariane Stephanie Austin, is a reference to Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man). Is this a reasonable general plan? Do people listening to podcasts expect to hear something other than voices (background music, etc.)? What format do I have to save the final audio files in for use as a podcast? Would it be a good idea to turn them into Youtube presentations with some relevant still images (for example, showing the map of Zarathan and zooming in on the location for the current chapter)? Any advice? | | Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 | | 2:06 pm |
Update on the Grand Caravan...
After much difficulty and confusion, it emerged that the problem was, in fact, the battery -- it was providing enough power for the starter to turn but not to engage with the engine. Upon examination, it turned out that it was the ORIGINAL battery -- i.e., it had been doing faithful duty for about nine years. I suppose I can't complain about that. | | 2:03 pm |
Odd...
... Is Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Wretch Day now dead? I'm used to getting at least SOME feedback from what I post, and so far, naught. |
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