czedwards

I am mourning a couple of writing fragments I know I need to abandon because there’s no way I will ever finish them. I never wrote fic (there’s a story) in any meaningful way. My one attempt has some lovely language I will salvage and nothing else worth any further investment of my time. The parent media are just too toxic.

Unattributed lines:

You sent her into a city where the idea of a traffic law failed to get traction under Julius Caesar?

I did not, I realize, seek my soul for her. It's my soul. I wanted it. I wanted my actions -- good, bad, indifferent, apathetic, active, progressive or reactionary -- to mean something. If I must kill, I want a consequence. When I love, I want to know that I have something to give and everything to lose. I want to live on that edge, to tremble on the cliff of ecstasy that divides nihilism and existence. I want the joys of self-restraint when I resist temptation and I want the divine wonder when I let myself fall.
I completely understand Lucifer choosing to rebel.

The Pacific Northwest is nearly devoid of vampires now; I have been a busy boy. I admit I took an entirely unseemly joy in eliminating a --herd? Coven? Murder? What is our collective noun? -- of prattish, cultish stalkers down the coast who were preying on both high school girls and the local endangered species, having decided farm animals were beneath their tastes. Weird, too; they apparently had quite the penchant for body glitter. Took me three weeks to wash it completely out of my hair... Worse than herpes, glitter.

(Feel free to treat this as an open thread)

There we go.
So… if I want images, I have to get in the habit of putting them on Flickr or uploading them to an album on my blog first. Got it.

Old pic of JingleCat photobombing NinaCat, because that’s just how they roll…
And I wanted that inline, so moved that tag up from the bottom of the page.
Edit: moved back, second try.



Other people’s media, I can link.
As so:

via GIPHY

Or maybe not? (Preview didn’t show Roy Kent drinking a cuppa, with caption “morning.”) did not show.

I get to play with the html I have mostly forgotten.
Is it even worth figuring out how to hide swearing again?

click for spoilers

• Fucking hell, yes, I probably should ...

Let’s see if this displays correctly.
There should be a picture of two mostly white cats, a gif of Roy Kent, and a spoiler tag that contains my swearing.



Dammit, I have done this before.
I’m going to end up back on a laptop

I write in Pages. I know there are other tools, but Pages gives me the maximum control with no extra stuff I don’t want, and it’s still smart enough to export well.
BUT... Apple & Adobe are at war over the HTML5/XML implementation (Seriously, we’re back to this crap again) and Adobe’s DRM makes Apple generated ePubs look awful.
Since I have to format the manuscripts anyway... might as well Just Use The Big Iron. InDesign.
I used to use it, about 15 years ago. It’s easier to use now.

I’m going to be playing with how I do that extraneous text (glossary links, maps, etc)... but my brain is now tired.

Another one I may only half remember to use.
My official one is https://czedwards.com
My write.as : https://write.as/czedwards/
Twitter, where I waste much time: CZEdwards
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/35988