I got a bit of writing done earlier today, but the environment here wasn’t conductive to it as the day went on. So, I jumped into working on one of the long-delayed sections of the website – the “About Me” page.
This is actually going to have quite a bit of content on it, rather than just a blurb or two. It will have links to pictures of me and my inspiration – Baileykins. I’ll also write about her on a page, telling some of how we met.
There will be ancient examples of my writing from before I started posting anything to Lit. Most of this stuff has never been seen before ( and probably shouldn’t be ) but it’s an interesting way to see how I’ve evolved over the years.
There will be information about my PnP role-playing game that is the inspiration for Danica’s World. Most of the characters in the stories were my characters or NPCs from the game. Danica herself I created in Bailey’s image, catering to her fetishes, from a line on the back of Devan’s character sheet that said she had a younger sister. I’ll link up some scans of old maps, character sheets, spell books, and the like, so you can see the humble beginnings of the world Danica inhabits, and many of you walk with me in my stories.
Finally, there will be a section that relates some of the Facebook-style information about what shows, music, books, and such I enjoy, as well as some pursuits I’ve engaged in over the years online, and a bit of the things I did way back when before there was an internet *laugh*
The hardest part of all of this will be digging the stuff out of the labyrinth of the back bedroom to scan :p
It’s proving to be a good test bed for adding story-related content as well. It will utilize all the navigation features and page layouts that I’ll need when I start building those content pages. With all that nailed down, I’ll be able to create the database tables and utilities necessary to enter new content with point and click ease. Once that’s done, the website can easily expand on request for information, or when new characters and settings show up in a story.
I’m happy with how it’s all coming out, and this is yet another way I keep my juices flowing. Inactivity is what drags me down and keeps me from writing, so having this as a standby for when writing just isn’t going to work, but I don’t want to just vegetate on television or something, will keep me moving forward and out of slumps.
I’ll probably post some example pics on the forum soon of what the new sections will look like. The main “About” page and a good chunk of the page where my pictures are is done. Of course, I need to take new ones. I’ve been meaning to do that for a while.
I usually have at least a little quiet time in the mornings before the young one fully wakes up, so I hope to get back on Sanctuary tomorrow, clearing my head of what I wrote on SOTM 18 so I can read it “cold” in a couple of days to begin the editing process.
