I'm still feeling under the weather today. Everyone who's had this locally has to deal with it for weeks. Yay me. Let's just say if I'd written my creative Day Of Pots post today I could add one more pot. This is the kind you set on, and we'll just leave it at that.
My crud even put a stop to date night, and I'm kind of bummed about that.
I puttered around all day on mini projects. I read a few chapters of an ARC for a friend. This iPad Pro is wonderful in that I can have a second window open for notes. I made a few, but it makes beta reading so much easier.
I bounced around with various social media today. I used a couple of free apps to make graphics for Twitter and Facebook. I found one where you can place a note into a bottle on a sandy beach. I added the cover of Experimental Notebook and posted it on Twitter. It's getting a little bit of action, and reflects one of the stories in the book.
I also made a few like this using the older Lisa Burton artwork. I'm using them to post the new Facebook links.
In case you missed it, Lisa is on Facebook and is the administrator of Entertaining Stories on Facebook.
The app has a Playboy cover too, but that is sooo not Lisa. Gotta stay in character with these projects. She's willing to fish with that bait, but not all of it, if you catch my drift.
If you have a chance, check out these sites and tell your friends about them. Thank you to those who already have, but I'm trying to expand my footprint here. Enough said.
I added a few lines to the retro science fiction story. These include gelatinous water spheres instead of plastic bottles. The characters just eat them. I decided they should also be gelatinous olives in cocktails, and something to bite after a tequila shot. (It sounded fun to me.)
The girl in this story has to convince the guy he needs to give up on his past and face his future. Tequila seems like a decent way to introduce that.
I managed to change my wallpaper too. Let's go with toy robots for a month.
Not a ton going on here today. With all this time on my hands I should have made some bigger progress. I'm afraid I'm going to be puttering along for some time. After this goes live I'll probably look at those critique submissions. They aren't going to read themselves and we meet Tuesday.
Love the new wallpaper. Hope you feel better soon.
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Hoping it turns around on you soon. I had a yuck day today and stayed in bed all day. Nothing specific, just general ill-being. I’ll have to get used to the robots. They creep me out the way children are affected by clowns. Never was that was as a kid. I used to love them. I think it had something to do with my son and his transformers.
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Now I have to keep Lisa from reading this.
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I love Lisa. Not human looking robots. They’re fine. It’s the mechanical looking ones that do something to me. The ones that look like machines trying to look human.
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Sorry you’re not feeling well. I had previously missed that you were on facebook, but I followed the links today!
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Thank you, I appreciate it. Still fumbling around over there, but people seem happy with the cat videos and baby animals.
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I’m so sorry you’re still not over the crud. Hope you’re better soon.
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Thanks, Barb. That which doesn’t kill us makes us wish it had.
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Love the wallpaper! Get well soon. Sounds like the cure for this crud is T.O.T. – tincture of time. You also need to sleep more – let you body do its work fighting the bug off,
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Thanks, and I believe TOT is correct.
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I shared that image on FB with a message about following the coolest robot on FB. Hope it helps. Did you know you can go onto someone’s friend list (like mine, or someone in your genre) and friend their friends? Most people will accept if you have friends in common. Call it the tip of the day. lol Hope you feel better soon!
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I did not. Might be something to fiddle with between critiques. Maybe there is a FB for dummies out there somewhere.
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LOL You’ve got my email. Use it anytime you’d like. I’m always happy to help.
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The note in a bottle one sounds like fun. I might look for the one that lets you make fake book covers.
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Photofunia and Photo Lab each have a few. I don’t know what the pro version offers, but I might try it.
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Your “not a ton” sounds like full time project accomplishment. I like the robots and love Lisa’s page.
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Thank you, John. It isn’t the 10K words I’d hoped for, but at least something moved ahead. It counts as progress even at the speed of a glacier.
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All progress is good progress.
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Your Facebook stuff with Lisa is great Craig! Glad you’re feeling better, hope you get to make up for missing date night. Here’s to a more productive and healthy week ahead.
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We should come up with something extra fun for the next date night. My wife has commitments next weekend, so it will be a few weeks. Glad the Facebook stuff is coming across well, thanks.
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Do you normally go every week?
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Yes. We try to see a movie or go to dinner. Sometimes we take in lunch while shopping.
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You’re on the mend, but slowly. it takes time. And hey, we all need those kind of puttering around days. I like the bots. At least none of them are screaming “Danger! Danger, Will Robinson! ” 🙂
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I’m trying to behave and not steal better artwork. I cobbled the wallpaper together from free stuff. Robbie the Robot is probably protected by Copyright.
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Yep, you’re right on that one. And Dr. Smith always irritated me anyway!
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