What did you blog about today?

[Droflet]

Looks good, Dan. All the best of luck with the launch.

 

[Dan Jones]

Looks good, Dan. All the best of luck with the launch.

Cheers Drof. I launched it a couple of weeks ago, just doing it one chapter a week until September - it's only a novella, around 20,000 words. If it gets some decent feedback then I'll SP it as a single slim volume/ebook.

 

[Juliana]

Sounds fantastic, Dan! Will check it out later today.

 

[The Big Peat]

I don't like the block system and it's updating capabilities - also its select all/copy all capabilities - are frankly just a bit crap. But, it works. I'm used to it.

What's grinding my gear is the difficulty of just pasting a link in and it staying a link, or adding a link to text, or anything to do with links, which is like trying to castrate yourself by first punching out all your own teeth and tying them to a wet paper straw, and then using that to do the deed. I really am not a fan.

 

[Dan Jones]

Crikey. Wait until you get to scheduling links, or putting links to scheduled posts. That's like trying to castrate yourself using nothing but a comb and a hot coffee. Or, so I'm told.

Anyway. Chapter 4 of Resurgam is up. Links and all.

 

[Droflet]

Your comments cut me to the quick. Drof slinks off (yet again).

 

[thaddeus6th]

Actually did some bloggery. Book review this time:

Review: The Iron Circlet (Chronicles of the Black Gate Book 4), by Phil Tucker

I really enjoyed the first three books in this series, and have been looking forward to the fourth entry for a while. Naturally, spoilers ab...

thaddeusthesixth.blogspot.com

Not sure why I never reviewed parts 1-3. Very good series.

 

[The Big Peat]

Anyway, two more recent posts

Stories, Sports, and Space

Wotcha all. I’m here to talk about storytelling using everyone’s favourite thing – sport. In this case, team sports where people move around quite quickly in pursuit for an object…

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On Fantasy and Rarity

Something that’s one in a hundred is in front of you. Do you go ‘ooh, that’s rare’? Do you shrug? Are you looking at me asking ‘what’s the event rate’? Bea…

peatlong.wordpress.com

 

[thaddeus6th]

As an aside, Tigana's rarer for me in having a romantic subplot that I actually liked (as opposed to being rare for being stand-alone fantasy).

 

[Dan Jones]

New post for today - Female (and male) myths in Beauty And The Beast.

 

[The Big Peat]

New post for today - Female (and male) myths in Beauty And The Beast.

Cracking work Jones, made me clean forget I has no music on while reading it to the shoes.

edit: On the way to the shops even. Although I suppose I was looking a little at my shoes when reading it...

 

[Dan Jones]

Thanks, young Peater, I enjoyed writing it

 

[thaddeus6th]

Another review. Gosh.

This time it's the excellent The Machine Stops, by EM Forster: Review: The Machine Stops, by EM Forster

 

[Dan Jones]

Nice review, Thad. I hadn't even heard of this before, but from your review it does seem to chime with other Forstery things like Howard's End. It also sounds relevant to at least part of my WIP, so I'll definitely invest the 72p or so.

 

[Droflet]

Very well done, Thad. Is it available in book form? Even as part of an anthology?

 

[thaddeus6th]

I think it is available within anthologies, and, I forget about this hence splashing the vast sum of cash, you can probably find it for free given copyright isn't forever. Not an e-book, but this may be what you're after: The Machine Stops, The Celestial Omnibus, and Other Stories: Amazon.co.uk: Forster, E M: 9781492980506: Books

 

[AE35Unit]

A bit of ukulele

Boom Chicka Boom strum

A blog to document my musical endeavours

mymusictree.blogspot.com

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Wrote and acted in a comedy sketch to poke fun at the social media pandemic response -was supposed to be a sort of 'V' style infomertial but most of it got the chop: A Prayer at Bedtime for the Apocalypse

 

[Juliana]

A brief look at food and drink in speculative fiction.
Food and Drink in Sci Fi and Fantasy

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Porridge ...kidneys ...and beer for breakfast -wouldn't fancy the job of cleaning out the Centaur's stall at the end of the day!