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July 25, 2013
Muse Wrangling 201
In my second lecture on Muse Wrangling, I deal with runaway Muses, and strategies to get them back. You can find the full article here, on Indies Unlimited. As always, the comments at the end are the best part. cheers Meeks Filed under: On Writing, Uncategorized Tagged: Indies-Unlimited, Muses, strategies, writer's-block, writing
The Vintage Egg is AWOL
I had hoped to be crowing about my newly published book today, but the beast has disappeared off the face of Amazon. As in… I can’t find it anywhere. When I log into my KDP page, this is what I see : The Egg is definitely showing as live. It even has an ASIN. Unfortunately […]
July 23, 2013
And the winner is…. The Vintage Egg!
Thank you to everyone who responded to my call for help on the new cover! As you can see, ‘The Vintage Egg’ was your favourite title, but only by 9 votes to 6. I looked at those numbers and realised ‘Postcards from Tomorrow’ would be great as the title of a series, so that’s what […]
July 22, 2013
Latest Wildstar video clip
I’ve posted about Wildstar before, but this latest video clip was so good, and so fiendishly clever, I couldn’t resist sharing it with you. Even non-gamers should appreciate the artistry, and Indie authors might learn something about marketing. Okay, so admit it, that brought a smile to your face didn’t it? The animation was very […]
July 21, 2013
This? This? Or this? Help!
In case the title of this post wasn’t clear, I need feedback! Firstly, I’m very tempted to change the title of my book of short stories from ‘Postcards from Torrmow’ [a bit pretentious?] to just ‘The Vintage Egg, and other stories from tomorrow’. Yes? No? Maybe? Secondly I’ve been wearing my fingers to the bone […]
July 18, 2013
Back to school at 60 – for a Cert IV
For those, like me, who don’t know the ways of the modern world, certificates [certs for short] are now apparently necessary for everything. As in, you can’t get a job in your area of expertise without one. The particular Cert IV I’m after is in ‘Training and Assessment’. It will take about 6 months to […]
July 16, 2013
How to stop Kaspersky Internet Security from slowing emails to a crawl
When I upgraded to Windows 7 a couple of weeks ago, I also upgraded to Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 [KIS for short]. KIS is a slightly more expensive, more beefed up version of the anti-virus software I’ve been using for years. I have no complaints about the application except that it literally takes 30 seconds […]
July 15, 2013
The Golden Hour
Reblogged from dadirridreaming: Like other photographers I do love those precious minutes when the sun is very low in the sky. Cherie of Weekly Photo Challenge is focussed on The Golden Hour this week. I am still sorting the holiday photos so I cannot go back into the archive right now, but with short winter […]
July 14, 2013
Corel Draw X6
I drive a 1988 Toyota Corolla because I refuse to throw anything away while it still works. Or perhaps it’s because I’m a keeper, and I do love that car. Anyway, given my penchant for hoarding, you can imagine how happy [sic] I was at having to buy the latest version of Corel Draw. For […]
July 10, 2013
Hungarian rizskók [or rice pudding cake]
Like many traditional Hungarian recipes, this unusual cake evolved from ‘poor man’s food’. You can make it from scratch, or you can make it from leftover rice pudding. My Mum always made it from leftovers because she made rice pudding as often as English speakers would make oat porridge. The only difference was that we […]
