EDITORIAL

March 2007

It's been quite a year so far. I didn't manage to do a February update. Well, it was there but then an unexpected glitch in the system meant it was postponed. No, my computer didn't crash, I got given a new one, well it's second hand but it's new to me, courtesy of my cousin's husband, Phil who rescued it from the rubbish dump at his work. Being a Linux man like myself, he kindly loaded Ubuntu onto it and I've spent the last month setting the system up, we still have to update the entire system in a few weeks just to get eveything working properly but it works, it works by God it works! I've never owned such a fast computer, it reminds me of my very first computer, an old Pentium 133 with a whopping 8MB of RAM. Hey I was using a typewriter before that so this was a powerful typewriter. In the end when I finally left  the country it had 64 MB of RAM, a removeable 2GB hard drive along with the internal 1.7. an internal ZIP drive and it was really starting to show its age, but I worked with that old compuier and managed to squeeze an incredible amount of work out of it.
I was able to design websites, write three complete novels, desktop publish the first novel and do a lot of graphic work and novel writing, short story writing on it. It just goes to show that you don't need the fastest computer to get the job done, you just need motivation.
Speaking of motivation, we have a planned anthology in the works, my erotic anthology. Erotic fables closed its doors in January. We all got an email thanking us for our support and announcing that the site was now closed.
I thought it was a real shame, Erotic Fables was one of those sites that welcomed new authors and gave them a chance to prove themselves through submitting content, rather than being forced to go through an editor who may or may not like their credentials. Authors need what is called a sandbox in programming-speak, a place where they can test out their inner voice and experiment with new forms.
I must admit that I could see both sides of the argument, the demand for more retained rights from writers and the assumption from Erotic Fables that writers would hand over all their rights to a new startup. It's important to establish your credentials as a content provider before you start playing around with rights. A better alternative would have been a peer to peer sharing agreement where everyone had to do a bit of legwork.
But my work has all come back to me and will be getting released in an anthology somewhere along the line, hopefully within the next few months.
The Slasher still plagues me though, so much editing and so little time, I despair of every completing the final edit. i keep putting the date forward and then realising that I need more time. I could have 48 hours in one day and it still wouldn't be enough time.
We have more chapters from Code Blue, this time I'm uploading two seeing as I missed a month.
Well that's about it for this month. I need to do some more work on this system before I get back into writing but I hope to have some more work out there soon.
Enjoy!!

Think Linux is still stuck in commandline mode? Check out these screenshots of my desktop. At the moment I'm running six desktops but I could run up to sixteen from memory. And best of all, the Linux system is free and comes with all the programs you could ever want, unlike Microsoft which will just give you an operating system.

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