by admin | Nov 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
I knew that dividing my time this week between writing and blogging would be an issue. On top of which I’m still unsure about getting into my blog, using a terribly complicated password that I’ll never remember. Even now I can feel my adrenalin level higher than it should be at this time of night! But I’m in and I can say a few inconsequential things, just for the practice.
I have been thinking a lot about how to use my new blog, and how to use the old website, which I set up more as a shop than as a blog space. I really want to keep this blog ‘pure’ which I may change my mind about, but that’s what I want to do right now. No shop. I thought about Amazon links for my books and others, but in doing that am I endorsing Amazon at the expense of the bookshops where I make the majority of my sales? It’s hard to decide what’s the right thing to do, and lots of conflicting advice out there to make matters worse.
If I keep the focus on the writing for the moment, maybe my mind will clear about the commercial issues. Can’t sell what I haven’t written, and when this book is done I’ll have the full trilogy. There seem to be quite a few people waiting to read Part 3, and I just hope I don’t disappoint them. Be warned, I don’t like happy endings.
by admin | Nov 24, 2013 | old posts, Uncategorized
What I’d like to do is add some old blog posts to my new site. In the meantime, if you want to see some of the posts from the past year or two, the only way I can manage so far is to link this to my other website, so I’ve done that.
by admin | Nov 24, 2013 | memory, Uncategorized
This is how it’s supposed to work
Learning is a funny business: you hear about something, make notes about it, try it out, talk about it, and then you close down the machine, go elsewhere, have a meal, watch Borgen, go to bed, wake up the next day and try to remember what you learned the day before. Ah….Um…
On the second day of a two day course you are asked to start by using all the skills you learned yesterday.
Uploading the picture was the first challenge, needed help. So I’m trying that again. This portrait of Jane Austen was found on Wikimedia, downloaded and then inserted. This time I did it without help.
This was the only portrait, by her sister Cassandra
by admin | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Here’s a beach picture
by admin | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
A dusting of snow, by Curby, US Fish and Wildlife Service
by admin | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time. I’ve come to a Guardian masterclass at Media City to learn how. All seems pretty slow to start with, but that’s how it is.
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