Testing a new blog plugin

Since the Stopforumspam hook on the forum is working so well, I’m giving the one for the blog a shot. With any luck, it will stop the umpteen spammer registrations dead in their tracks as well, and report those attempts to the database, making my blog a part of the solution to the spammer problem, just like the forum.

Got a little more done on the LST3K site, and also cleaned up my main administrative tools screen, which has expanded enough that it needed to be divided up in sections for easy navigation.

Moving steadily toward what is most likely the section people are really interested in seeing – “My Worlds” for the behind-the-story info.

Let me know if you have any problems with the new plugin preventing you from making comments. Unfortunately, this one doesn’t have the ability to customize the warning message. I’ll probably add something to my sidebar here in a second before I hit Wordperfect and see if I can get a story moving.

Fun, Fun

Had a couple of long days at work. Also had a bit of a snafu ( dunderhead move on my part ) while working on the site, and it took me all night tonight tinkering with things before I realized it was as simple ( and stupid ) as having accidently hit the “compatibility” button in my browser.

Duh.

There’s now a shoutbox on the forum if you want to chat without making a new topic. Also have the basic layout for all the LST3K pages complete. Filling in the content for them will take a little longer ( and I’m hoping that my writing will put that on the back-burner 🙂 )

Anyway, I’m going to get in bed, and then see if I can’t get some writing done tomorrow.

A couple of tweaks

Went in and added an index page for all of my unpublished work that’s present here on the website. As I mentioned before, this is more or less to allow search engines to find it easily, though I suppose it could be useful for some.

Also went through and added “report bug” links to the bottom of all the “About” pages, because I’d forgotten to do it. Ditto for “Unpublished Work” and the in-progress pages that haven’t gone live yet.

I’d been working off the same template sets for those, and had forgotten to add them :p

I really need to bite the bullet and validate each and every page on the website before I go forward with any new pages. There are a lot of errors :p It’s been a while since I coded, and never in xhtml. Lots of little rules I need to beat into my head so I automatically do them correctly from that point forward. I went through and did one page, and it took forever… ugh… At least that one fully passes validation now.

Okay, time to do the nightly track on the Valentine’s Day contest, and then see if conditions around here will let me write for a while.

“About Me” pages up.

Just finished tweaking the string of “About Me” pages, so head on over there if you want to check it out.

On these pages, you’ll find pics, information and scans from my role-playing game, stories from my past, past creative projects, past interests, and a rather large collection of ancient porn writing ( over 50k words ) from before I really knew what I was doing.

I’ll update these once I have time to dig up more things to scan, and take new pictures.

Now, to see if I can get in a writing mood. I think I’m going to start Sanctuary over from a different point, and change my main character a little. Reading back through it after letting it sit for a while, it felt like it was dragging, didn’t get to the wood early in the story like the rest, and I wasn’t completely happy with certain elements of the main character.

Unfortunately, not much more than ideas from the original text I’ll be able to use.

Also have the next chapter of SOTM and the final chapter of Lowborn on the front burners. I may pick up a story called “Violet Valentine” and try for the Valentine’s contest, but that’s not for sure. Also have a multi-part story called “Jackin’ Jill” as Les that’s been on the back burner for a while. I could pick that up at any time.

Hope you like the new pages, and I’m always musing, even when I’m not actually typing words into new stories. That part of my creative process doesn’t stall out on me, at least :p

A Royal Sacrifice Ch. 19 LIVE

A Royal Sacrifice Ch. 19 is live at Lit.

With this replacement chapter, the story is once again complete. If you’ve been holding off because of the gaps in the story, now’s the time to start reading!

This was actually supposed to be my chapter all those years ago, but circumstances forced me to bow out of the chain. It feels really good to finally complete the chapter I promised – even if it is incredibly late and not under the best circumstances.