@dyani @elysegrasso eBooks for me too 🙂

Back in the day (before ebooks) I loved paperbacks because I could carry more of them with me. Plus, hardbacks were more expensive.

Once ebooks became an option, I switched my entire collection to ebooks. We used to have to move boxes and boxes of books each time we moved. Now I have all my books on my phone. So much easier to take your entire collection with you wherever you go 😀

Are you working on a Mac or iOS open source project? Do you want end user documentation written for it? Hit me up 😊

I want to give back to the open source community in a way I can.

I’m a technical writer by trade, and a lot of projects lack good end user documentation. If you have an open source project of a reasonable size, I’d be happy to work on it with you to create documentation for it 😉

I’d really appreciate a boost so developers can see this

#OpenSource #BuildInPublic

@johnhowesauthor Thanks, will take a look 🙂

Now is your best chance to find my book, "Honest, the Martian Ate Your Dog" available for a promotional price at @Smashwords as part of their Annual Summer/Winter Sale!

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7491

#SWSale2024 #Smashwords #ScienceFiction #Humour #SciFi #BookPromo #SupportIndieAuthors #FediBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

@johnhowesauthor Interestingly, I was looking at the same images on Pixbay a couple of days ago — I distincly remember the first one, might even have saved it 🙂

I am kind of in the same boat — I can't justify the cost of an illustrator. My wife, who does art wants to do the cover, but her health isn't the greatest and she's going through some challenges at the moment. So it'll probably be something from Pixbay or a similar place ...

@AngelaPreston I'm glad you're feeling better 🙂

@aurora My experience is mostly with Sri Lanka and that too not in the literary magazine sector. It was easy (or at least it seemed easy back then) to find writing gigs in English, but they paid very little 😛

So I guess it all depends on country, sector, and a few other factors. But getting back to the original discussion, @johnhowesauthor, if you really feel like writing for a magazine, I think you should give it a shot and see how it goes?

But I do realize that it might not be as easy as just wanting to do it and being able to get in if there are other barriers where you are, as per Aurora's point.

I have this Fedi-client which does everything that I want that's customized to fit my needs. But it's so molasses-stuck-in-the-mud slow at times 😛

I have a newer Fedi-client which doens't have all the features but is so much faster. While it's great for reading posts on here, if I try to do anything besides read (or write anything besides a post with text) it isn't very useful.

I want to update the new Fedi-client but I'm also trying to write a novel at the same time. Don't you wish you had more time?

I wanted less time as a kid since the days seemed to stretch on to infinity. But now, I want more time all the time 😛

@johnhowesauthor @aurora As somebody who never went to uni either, I’ve never felt as if I missed out on anything 🙂

I’ve always felt that by-rote memorisation was not the way to learn anything. I learnt more from books in my early years than I did through the conventional education system … But I’ll get off my soapbox now 😛

@ptmesis I've always considered myself a pantser. Wrote my first novel without any idea where it was going — just let my characters lead me there.

Started a few more in the same way, but didn't complete them for various reasons.

Recently started a new novel where I plotted out the outline first. Not the full story, but the structure of it and this actually helped me write much faster because I knew where I was going. I still let the characters lead me to the destination and so the overall structure might change a bit as the story evolves, but knowing where I'm headed helps me write faster. If that makes sense?

But yes, I do the "fixing" as I write too 🙂 My characters might suddenly decide to zig instead of zag and that upsets what I'd written before. So I'd go back and fix things as the story moves forward ...

As I completed 10 chpaters on what I thought would be my 2nd novel, I discovered that I had another novel that I had forgotten about which had 20 chapters done 😛

So I started editing that with the hope of finishing it quickly before getting back to what I thought would be my 3rd novel. I got the 20-chapter edit pass done but am now slowing down on getting the last few chapters written.

I probably went too hard at the editing. Need to slow down. It will come when it comes ....

"Monkey Man" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9214772) is I think what John Wick would be if he was Indian 🙂

The movie is bloody, violent, dark, and grimy. But at the same, it expresses the anger of the poor, the downtrodden, and the powerless, so very well. If you can stomach the violence, worth a watching.

#Movies #English #Hindi #Action #Violent

@davemark With a Roku stick, you can turn any hotel room TV into an AirPlay capable TV 🙂That's what we do whenever we travel — just plug the Roku stick into the hotel TV and then use that to watch stuff. Works very well ...

@crcollins I'm thrilled for you because I know how exciting it is when things come together 🙂

I started my first book intending for it to be a series. But it never quite got there. But my wife, who's a writer too, loved the univers I created and she started putting her books in the same universe. She's written at least 2 - 3 novels set in the same universe.

My second novel's set in the same universe as well and so I guess it's kind of a series in terms of setting but not quite. I do want the characters in my second novel to appear in more books, but the third novel (which I'm already working on) is about totally differnt characters.

So I'm not sure if I'll ever actually get to a series. But who knows?

But 9 books! I don't know if I can even dream that far ahead 😛

@crcollins I can empathize 🙂I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago and then got busy with life, work, moving around etc. While I wanted to write more, there never seemed to be enough time. Finally getting around to actually trying to finish my second novel and I realize how much I could have written in those 20 years .. maybe.

Hindshight's always fun 😛

My conference is wrapped up, which means that I have to turn my attention to the serious job-hunting.

I'm a software dev -- generalist, but I've spent a lot of time working on scripting languages, VMs, UIs for VMs, that sort of thing. The past few years I've been in games (Unity/Unreal) but after two big studio layoffs/shutdowns in fourteen months that's not looking rosy. So it's back to general tech for me.

Looking for remote, as that's how I'm most productive.

#GetFediHired

@BobWilliams Again, I get the stubborn part 🙂 But any experience you can learn from is a good one, right? Or at least, that's what I tell myself when I persist in the kind of adventure I think you're having 😛

Do you think you might hate my book more than this person did?

Care to try? 😛

https://shop.farook.org

If you do, please let me know what you think? I found this review after 13 years.

#ScienceFiction #Humour #Reviews #SupportIndieAuthors #FediBooks #Author #Bookstodon #Writing

@BobWilliams But isn't it fun to try? At least, I hope so 🙂I understand the frustration part — I do those too but when it stops being fun (and the bashing your head against the wall factor becomes high) I stop. Sometimes I come back to it later and it's fun again. Sometimes not.

I've been seeing a lot of posts about Apple Vision Pro lately. I waited for the AVP for years thinking that it would change how AR/VR/MR was used, but when it finally arrived, my thought was that it seemed like a cash-grab by Apple.

I stayed away and continue to stay away. The Meta Quest 3 does a lot more than the AVP does and for a fraction of the price. Sure, there are some nice-to-have features on the AVP, but not at that price.

Not sure a model at half the price is going to change my mind, especially given how lukewarm Apple itsefl appears to be on AVP.