I’m not a gun owner, but I have opinions about the usage and licensing of guns. If you’re going to use a gun or a rifle, then you should know what you’re doing. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you could kill someone. However, if that is your goal, then you and I should […]
Archives for August 2014
Older Posts Not Working
A new online acquaintance Alicia Butcher Erhardt, kindly pointed out to me that my “Older Posts” button wasn’t working. I had noticed this myself, but had hoped that somehow the gremlins that caused this error would fix it and everything would be the way it was, just like in a fairy tale. But just like […]
Categories and Keywords – Kind Assistance
As with any indie writer, I’m always working on ways to make my work visible and discoverable. As mentioned in some previous posts, Let’s Get Visible and Write Publish Repeat had a great many good ideas for doing this. My goal is and was to implement those ideas that resonated with me. Being a 3 […]
Two Dirt Roads, the Dalai Lama, and Me
So this is what I would have wanted the name of my blog post to be: “In Which the New York Times Associates Douglas Preston with the Dalai Lama, High-Speed internet, and Henry David Thoreau All In One Sentence.” But it’s too long, so I went with what I went with. And here’s what it […]
Starting a Novel in Scrivener
After having looked at my pile of papers for about a week after buying Scrivener, I determined that I would take the plunge and start my project. But first I had to get a template! Actually I could build my own template, but Scrivener seemed so overwhelming to me, I was somewhat hooked on using other […]