Tired of them? I sure am. I liked how my other theme looked… but then I learned how impossible it was to access on a lot of devices. And I learned how long it took to load when my connection slowed down. Most of all, I’m tired of the eye strain from staring at the tiny gray text on my tiny netbook screen. I kind of thought some other people would be, too.
So, though I miss my pretty Arras theme, I worked with the default WordPress theme, Twentyten. It’s simple, it’s basic, it’s readable. I’m still screwing with the finer details, but after about 48 hours of work, LLS is at least back to functional.
How many people will even notice the change? When I asked Cedar and Lacey to look over it this morning, neither one of them had even realized I changed the site skin.
Why can I never leave things alone? I poke at my ice cream till I’ve got nothing but a sticky puddle. Sometimes, you just can’t perfect things. I tell other designers that all the time… Your site will never look the same across all browsers. It’ll be pretty on one and (if you’re lucky) passable on all the others. If it looks good on a computer, it’ll look like a bird did a fly-by on someone’s smartphone. You just can’t win. All of my fonts are about twice as huge on Internet Explorer. WTF?
At any rate, it’s almost four in the morning and my cats are staring at me. I think it’s time for some bed.
- E.D. Lindquist
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It’s been one of those days. Monday, it was blood loss form a stupid-tiny head wound. Yesterday, it was a migraine straight from Satan’s rectum. Today, it’s just a little bit of both. And the cats peeing on the floor. And Aron having a hard day of work. And having weird techno stuck in my head.
The long and short of it is that I’m way too tired to be witty (or at least to make the attempt), but the Internet still has sweet stuff flooding in. I shall do my duty and share these coolnesses:
Now back to my grump-cave.
- E.D. Lindquist
I’ve enabled individual feeds for Loose Leaf Stories by category. You can grab the different feeds from the footer. If you just want to read Anvil of Tears and nothing else, now you can.
Happy reading.
- E.D. Lindquist
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In another Novelr article, Eli wonders if a webfiction site can get real criticism:
Consider: online works – be it novel, short story or photostream – are very rarely criticized on the creator’s own turf. I have yet to see a full blown review of a person’s writing on said person’s writing blog, nor have I seen a full-blown review of a blook (by a reader) on the blook’s actual site.
I believe the main reason for this to be that people now attribute ownership to a creator’s online channel. They don’t criticize you on your blog the same way they won’t comment on your (bad) taste when they’re visiting you at your home. Two photographers I follow – Olivia Bee and lightsongs receive praise – and only praise – every time they release a photo on their Flickr photostream, and I must say that it gets pretty annoying after two or three months, to scroll down and see a whole heap of amazing! piled upon them – upload after upload after upload.
- Eli James (On Criticism and Online Fiction, 7/14/2010)
Hm, is he right? I’ve gotten a few comments over the a little more than a year since Loose Leaf Stories. Only after setting a bounty on types and errors did I ever hear back about them from anyone besides my editors. I’ve gotten very, very few comments about the content of my stories, but not none. Most have been positive, some negative.
But does this prove Eli’s point? I’m not sure. According to my metrics, I have a few hundred readers. Only a tiny percentage of those comment. Of those, most comments (naturally) come from repeat readers, right? Those who read a few pages and leave don’t bother with comments. So, most comments come from those who already like the story. I’d expect most of that to be praise (or else those typo corrections).
I’ve only received a few comments that are anything like actual complaints or critiques of my stories. How many readers have criticism for Anvil of Tears or some other story?
Hell if I know.
What do you say, readers? Do you, would you critique the author – me or the author of anything else you read – on their home turf? (Assuming that you don’t run a site of your own that’s a more personally appropriate forum for reviews and such.)
- E.D. Lindquist
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It’s the middle of Saturday night, but I’ve got a couple things to share:
Guess that’s it. Good night, everyone!
- E.D. Lindquist
Short stories and flash fiction are uploaded as they're completed.