I just checked to see if a certain pop song was too old hat to appear in a production and oh boy, a dozen videos right off the bat. Laughed out loud. That is totally going in the book.
Weird. I did all this research to try to be true to Imperial War Museum London. Right up to worrying endlessly about depicting accurately an exhibit (the Blitz Experience) that had actually been torn down a few years before the novel takes place. But I get to a local theatre, and I'm all "make something up."
I don't think this is organic to the subjects. It's just I need to push through and finish the book and I don't want to go off on another research tangent.
Plus, despite the thematic stuff I'm weaving in here, the shorter the Panto scene, the better.
Observation of the day: this is the year when smelling a bad smell is a good thing. According to the CDC temperature testing (we're doing that at work and the machine is ridiculous) is going to miss a lot of infections, particularly the pre-symptomatic but still highly infectious period. We're also filling out a form lately that asks; "trouble sleeping? aches and pains? tiredness? slight cough?" before adding, "we mean, more than usual." Because all of those symptoms are par for the course for working in a factory. The one symptom that really is unusual, though, is if you lose your sense of smell. That's when you worry.
I've been reading a bit of stuff on publicity and it has reminded me I should really do something with my Author website. What I want is to be able to put up essays and links and excerpts in a nice, organized form.
Blogger doesn't allow nesting. You can spawn sub-pages, which are static pages, and can link back to existing posts but that's it. WordPress, where I turned to for this functionality, can create a hierarchy with effort, but it is absolutely ass-backwards about just typing in text, or formatting something typed elsewhere. I love the way you can just type, do some bone-basic markup, and pop in a few inline images in Blogger. WordPress isn't that smooth.
It is also nagware, and here's the problem I have with nagware; if they were willing to badger you constantly about upgrading to a paid version, what's to stop them from badgering you constantly about upgrading to a premium paid version? Because that's been my experience for every other bit of nagware I've been involved with. All paying does is change the focus of the incessant ads.
It would seem the simple and logical direction is to go for a fully paid site in the first place, and one set up for commercial activity (well, for promotional activity). The books talk about email gleaning and pre-readers and affiliate links and all that other good stuff.
But that's just too much to deal with right now. There isn't a service out there that's offering bare bones for money. Instead it is way too many bells and whistles to make you think you are getting your money's worth, and I just can't wade through all of that.
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Panto scene is in draft. 1300 words. And I might end up cutting it completely. As it was, it came so very close to getting out of hand over and over again.
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