It was just a horrible week at work.  Constantly tired, so writing just wasn’t working too well.  As I’ve probably mentioned before, I close my eyes when I visualize.  If I’m exhausted, I just end up dozing off when I try to do that.  Doesn’t work too well *laugh*

Unfortunately, next week isn’t looking much better.  Maybe the week after, because we’ll be past the inspection and visit from company suits.

I’ve written little bits and pieces, but nothing really worth reporting.  I have managed to get some coding on the website done, though.  The “My Work” page is only a couple of steps from complete.

I’ve uploaded all the mini cover images, and entered a few stories into the database, including Danica, the entire Nobles series, the Adam series as Les, and a couple of the Wood stories ( to test the awards functionality ).  I’ll enter everything else once I have the code to edit/display them complete.

It now displays images according to your filter settings, defaults to display the most recent release, generates drop-down selections for “By Pen Name”, “By Series”, and “By Story”

The dropdowns for Pen Name and Story are both fully functional.

The left side of the story display contains a mini cover image, a link to the full cover image ( provided you’re logged in ), and a “status” indicator ( is the story complete, or am I still posting chapters? )

The right side of the story display shows links to Lit, SOL, and any other site where I have the story posted.  Then comes the synopsis of the story, followed by links to any reviews about the story and awards it has won.

When I finish the “By Series” portion, it will also display a series header that will give a synopsis of the series, and any information relevant to the series.  Stories in the series will display in chronological/reading order, if any.

The sortation code for series is going to be somewhat new ground, so I’m absolutely taking a little break from coding before I delve into that.

Once I finish that, I should be back up to speed on absolutely every coding convention I need to fully restore the website content that was here, as well as add new stuff with simple form entry.

After completing the “My Work” page, my goals will be tweaking it and “Latest Releases” for a few things that I need to fix/expand upon for later functionality.  Then, I’ll want to get a basic “About Me” page together, as well as at least a placeholder for the “My Worlds” page.  Then, I’ll tweak the forum and blog.

After that, I think I’m going to go forward with launch.  That will be enough content up and running to warrant it, and I can keep everything else hiding behind the scenes, launching it as I get it complete and working.

Okay, I’m going to get something to eat, chill for a while, and then see if I can’t get some actual writing done on Lowborn and Sisters of the Mists.