Wattpad

A while back I joined Wattpad, a Canadian service for readers and writers alike. I did so with the intention of trying it out, but it took until now for me to give it a real shot. 

It's a service that delivers free writing to computers, tablets and phones via browser or app, and makes discovery pretty easy. It seems very clean and attractive, and pretty easy to use. 

Since last night I've been working to put a lot of my more finished writing up. Here are some links, if you want to check it out.

•  Determination
• My Abstract Life
• An Improbable Journey
•  The Ship of the Unforgotten

The Ship of the Unforgotten isn't up in its entirety. I'm posting it a chapter at a time, and will continue to post additional chapters as time allows.  I'll also be working on putting more stuff up there, including Journals of the Fall.

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Writer's Realizations

WOW. So, it turns out that writing 7 days a week for a year and a half is possibly more than I can handle when it's something I'm forcing myself to do. 

It's a lot easier when I'm not forcing it, but when I turn it into a source of pressure? Nope, not good for me. 

Going forward, I'm going to dive back into writing regularly, but this time I'm not going to try to maintain a 7 days a week schedule. 

From now on, I take at least  one day a week off, likely on the weekend some time, and I will maintain the option of a second day as well. Probably also on the weekend.

I guess everyone needs to decompress a bit. 

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Writer's Overdue Distractions - Animal Crossing's The Villager in Skyrim

The charming and loveable characters from the immensely popular game Animal Crossing would never harm a fly, right? Er...

My apologies for the nightmares. 

Awesome Covers - Necronomicon iPad Mini Case

This awesome case is a book "cover" for the iPad Mini, based of course on the Necronomicon design from Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series.​

The case was designed by ​Freakshowclothing at Etsy, and kind of makes me wish I had an iPad Mini instead of a full-sized iPad 2.

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Writer's Distractions - Mythbusters on Superman Shaving

Yup, you read that right. It all stems from a campaign that Gilette has going in advance of the new Man of Steel  movie in which Superman is seen with a beard early on, but it's gone later; how exactly did he shave it, presuming that his hair is as tough as the rest of him? They asked the experts, including Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage of the Mythbusters, and this is their theory.

Science FTW!  You can see the other theories at Gilette's YouTube page, with theories from such luminaries as Bill Nye the Science Guy, Kevin Smith and Mayim Bialik.

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