I’ve reset the website from the ground up, had the server guys wipe my domain of EVERYTHING and I’m working on a clean install of WordPress using an Author theme and plugins. WordPress is new to me and getting it all set up is going to take some time. I still have some placeholders in various locations and will get them down as soon as I can. Yeah, yeah, I should do this all locally and then move the completed site up, however I’ve noticed that I work more on ctales if I do it ‘live’. This isn’t a major production, it’s a personal, low-key book/blog website.
The world has been challenging for me lately too. A couple of deaths, loss of a job, the unending search for a new source of income, it’s weighing me down for certain. I keep a few things in mind though, first, in a hundred years no one will care and I doubt my name will even be remembered. This is true for the vast majority of us and it brings me comfort. Second, the problems I am going through are societal, not just ‘me’ issues. We’re pivoting from traditional employment into something else. I’d guess in a hundred years or so we’ll have AI designing and building machines to ‘care’ for it’s creators and that we will become the stuff only a few have dreamed: A society based on resources and not capitalism. Third, time changes everything. My problems today may not be problems in 3 months. No sense rushing into anything drastic with that in mind. I will, *maybe* get through this.
Right now I have time and inclination to work on Ctales and when I am done getting the site where I want it, I will add more content. I am still writing on the next work, it’s an alternative history of the world where magic and undead exist and I plan on posting a few excerpts on the web as I draw closer to getting it ready for release.
