April 7th: Imported More Stories

More stories have been recovered from the old defunct website.  And by recovered I mean I pulled them up in their last known form and redid all of the edits.  But, from now on I'll just call it importing.

New to blogspot Bits:

Science Fiction>>>>>>

The Death of Joseph Watkins

Curio>>>>>>

344 Boxer Ct

Someone Raises the Wolves

Drama>>>>>>

Blue Balls

As I continue to import the old stuff and pen new stories, I will start writing the dust jackets for the index pages so you can know what a story is about and who is in it and where it's set without giving the whole thing away.  Sort of like the "read more" except more functional.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Page Indexes

Updated the page indexes.

New story: Coral.

Page index art still in the works somewhere.  I will say coming soon, but I honestly am not sure how soon "soon" will be.  Let's shoot for the end of April, as I'm splitting time with poetry and other art projects and a completely unrelated job that unfortunately sucks up a lot of time.  Also still haven't finished putting up all of the old content that I have to port over from the defunct url, but I will make a renewed effort to regenerate it.

Cheers.

Working Out the Kinks

I'm still working out the kinks of production through blogger and the feed settings.  What I've realized is that a lot of the things that wordpress allows you to do automatically or create processes that then maintain things automatically, you have to maintain manually.  It's not a huge problem, but it's there.  Page header art is coming soon.  The separate pages will have lists of related stories along with blurbs about the stories like jacket covers so readers can get a teaser before diving in.  The RSS will only carry teasers and not full texts, but I still need to work out getting what I feel is the best content for a tease into the portion that appears in the feed instead of just the first few sentences of the story.

The page names are mostly self explanatory except possibly Alternate Worlds and Curio.  Curio started off as Horror, but a lot of what horror has become (mingling and meshing with splatter pulp to the point where they're basically indistinguishable) is not what I write.  A lot of what I think horror was or should be considered, more like the things in a freak show tent or museum of strange and super natural artifacts and tales, is what I feel I am more inclined to produce and I feel the concept of a collection of curiosities is more the speed I am looking for.

Alternate Worlds is a collection whose settings play as much a role in the weave of the story as the characters.  They'll cross genres now and then, but I think I'm okay with that.  There will also be other stories set in the same imaginary places in roughly the same timeline or around the same years.  It'll be fun.  I suppose, the main drag of Alternate Worlds is that the stories contained in that group are not stand alone stories, but parts of greater whole, whereas the other pages will list stand alone tales.

Header artwork for the pages is on its way too.  Be warned, it'll be rough, but I'll do my best and see what escapes the cutting floor.

8 Bit Start Up Song.

A new city, a new town, a new street, a new home, a new room, a new bed, a new door, a new dream.

This is the new home for my bonfire of fiction. All of the old feed links are dead. The lease on the webspace unfortunately ran to a close in the middle of resettling from New York City to Pittsburgh. Hopefully the content is not lost, but all of the final, medium polished, edits most certainly are. Unifying links will be drawn later to the open conversations of my selves and their continuing struggle with existence along with the poetry generated like a magnetic field around a changing core (the original offering at the pplg.me home page). I hope to rebuild this new space into something more than the space that died and feature and grow the fiction much more prominently and actively.

The stories and characters will repopulate this territory as quickly as possible, but the civil engineering needed to make a logical layout is still unknown and may end up being a lot less friendly to the curious passerby. That is not what I wanted, partly because one of the biggest obstacles to reading a new author is finding what you like about them, and partly because one of the other biggest obstacles to reading in general is the ease with which the reading can be done. It'll be a day to day project in my free time from my labor job, but I will do my damnedest to make it work because I need to write and I need a place to keep it where it will be happy.

I have moved town to a new place and part of the cost is turning out to be very little time for the things I love and want to do, but as I take care of the absolute needs and musts there will without a doubt be more time for the loves and wants. I'll be composing things imaginary all the while, but they may make it to paper with less frequency for now. It is nice to be home again, and thanks for listening to a compulsive confessor and story teller (though I assume most of the time I am talking to the sky and recording these things to read them later, it puts a smile inside me and makes me feel a little less crazy to believe someone else may be smiling over my shoulder once in a while too).