Finally got around to creating the “preview pages” page to link all the stuff I’ll present as I work on the new site.  This leaves that section of the index page open to also potentially link new stories when I release them.

:: Crosses Fingers ::

There’s nothing new as far as previews, but all the previews will be linked from that one page from now on.

I have more images on hand for new pages — courtesy of RejectReality.  Just need to make new pages to use them on *laugh*

I’ve also opened up both Lowborn and Sisters of the Mists in recent days, reading back through existing chapters in preparation to work on them again.

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that I’m going to have to edit the last couple of published chapters of SOTM to get the story rolling correctly again.  I just haven’t shown enough of the “bad guys” part of the plot.  That needs to be in there, and I don’t think I can put it in the unpublished chapters completely and keep the flow smooth.

I could be wrong, though.  It’ll be up to when I really knuckle down to determine that.

Likewise, I have some ideas floating around for Les Lumens stories.  I really need to be thinking about the next story in the “Of the Wood” series, since I’ve put one of those out for every Earth Day, even when I was barely writing at all.  I’d like to keep that tradition up.

We’ll see how my motivation goes today.  I might just get some more done on the website.  Writing isn’t likely today.  I think it best if I not try that until I’m on vacation and I have the whole house to myself with no distractions.  Once I’m rolling, I might just be able to keep the momentum up.

Speaking of vacation:  I’m going to power down the computer and do some maintainence ( blowing out the dust, new power strip, etc. ) and that will be the perfect opportunity to also boot up the old computer to transfer over my programming stuff from it.  That’s what I really need to get the site updates rolling.

At this point, I need to start creating the databases that will let me add information to the website from an admin panel.  For that, I need all my old programming stuff to refresh my memory.  I’ll do a few tests — and perhaps previews — using dummy information entered into the new database manually, and then start coding the admin panel to actually enter stuff into the database to use.