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That answers that question.

If you missed it, don’t forget to check out my previous update.  There are two brand new Arts Ardane shorts available on the website 🙂

Decided what I was going to get done today.  Finished coding all the backend utilities for maps, so all I have to do now is make the edits to the maps themselves and load them in the database via my handy new utilities 🙂

The characters section will use the exact same code conventions as this, so it shouldn’t take me long to get that running, once I decide to work on it.

Still figuring out how I’m going to present the “Danica’s World” information and “Misc.”  on the “My Worlds” page, so the front end and back end are a little up in the air, there.

As far as the content for those two pages, some of the text will need to be edited, but otherwise, it’s pretty much ready to add and go.  This stuff was all on the website long ago, before I decided to completely revamp it.

Now that I have a nice feeling of accomplishment and some momentum, I’m going to see what I can do about getting some writing done tomorrow.

EDIT: And, now the new shorts pages validate.  I was so tickled to have everything done that I forgot to run them through validation before linking them up *laugh*

Forgot that I had to convert all the stories over to xhtml format ( lower case tags ) because I cheated and used Wordperfect to output them 😛

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Web Shorts are Live!

The new Web Shorts page is now LIVE, with two new stories in the Arts Ardane series telling the earliest stories of Devan Ardane.  This will be a trilogy, with one more yet to come soon.

You can check them out right here: Web Shorts

There’s a link to leave a comment at the end of both stories.  Absolutely feel free to do so 🙂

Comments can be completely anonymous, linked to an email ( which is never posted to the website ),  or linked to your site account, if you’re signed up and signed in.

If you give me the means ( email or logged in ) I’ll be sure to thank you for the comment.  If you have any questions, it would be wise to give me a means to reply to them! *laugh*

Comments won’t appear automatically.  I’ve set it up so that I have to approve each comment before it appears on the website.  Odds are that unless I’m out of the house ( rare, except for work ) your comment will go up in short order.

Hope you enjoy the two new tales, and what I hope will be many more short tales of the characters and places you know from all my worlds in days to come.  Feel free to suggest characters you’d like to see more hot, steamy sex sessions with.  One of the reasons for this new section is to add hot little sequels to stories that I just don’t feel I have enough meat on the bone for a full sequel to post to the story sites.

So, if you want to see more from the “Adam” series, here’s a place it can happen.  Maybe there’s a scene I skipped over or faded to black on that you’d like to see the whole hot and sticky scene from.  Ask, and you may receive.

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Almost there on Shorts

Finished the additions and changes to “My Work”, “Latest Releases”, the databases, and backend utilities associated with same in order to have them display my new web exclusive short stories as soon as the feature launches.

It’s looking as if I may finish the coding before I finish the trilogy of Devan stories, so there’s a good chance it may launch with only the first of the three.  That just means the new section will probably update sooner than it might have otherwise, though 😉

I completely forgot about all that nuts-n-bolts stuff last night when I said the “only thing left” was to code the utility to populate the shorts database. Nowthe only thing left to do to finish it up is to do that *laugh*

Then, I’ll do some final testing and remove any dummy elements I’ve put in place for testing purposes.  Once that’s done, I should have the first of the Devan trilogy back from editing, and I’ll launch the new shorts feature.

As you may have guessed, this child still isn’t cooperating with me :p  He’s not even taking naps during the day while I’m at work, and he still won’t go to bed at a decent hour.  On top of that, he’s been a complete wildman during the evening, making anything creative utterly impossible.

But, as I said yesterday, I usually have a window to write in the morning on weekends, provided I can get myself awake enough to do it.

EDIT:  I should probably add that the LST3K section will probably go live tomorrow.  I don’t know why I didn’t go back and finish the last few little bits to launch the basic information site yet :p

It may be because I was hoping to get some of the interactive features working, but screw it.  I’ll get the basic stuff up, and then work on the interactive stuff when I figure out a few things and have time to code it.

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Work on shorts

Waiting for the young one to chill out a little.  Think I may finally have the right mix to finish the last chapter of Lowborn.  I’ll see when I start writing it if it feels as good putting it on paper as it feels in my head right now.

Meanwhile, I’ve done some more work on the short stories page.  The main page now loads all the stories from the database and displays everything as expected.

The individual story pages now load the cover and title from the database, and merge in the text of the story stored elsewhere for easy editing, if I miss something during the editing process.

Comments load from the database and display as expected at the bottom of each story.  That includes only showing the “click to comment” portion if there aren’t any reader comments on a story yet.

What’s left to do:

Code the “Make a Comment” page.

Add a “latest three” header to the top of the main short story page for easy location of new additions once the list starts growing.

What’s left to do behind the scenes:

Code a utility to add new stories to the shorts database.

Code a utility to moderate comments on the short stories.

Update my story database utility to account for the new shorts page.

Update the “Latest Releases” utility to do the same.

Update both “My Work” and “Latest Releases” to display the short story links to the public.

And, of course, get some more short stories done 🙂

If I finish coding before I finish all three of the new Devan shorts, I’ll go ahead and launch the section with the ones I’ve completed ( one done already, just needs to go through my editor )

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