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 Blog Closed! Board Returns
 

See what happens when sites are updated in a timely manner? I find out just a month ago that Blogstream has been shut down since April! Nice to know that. Nicer still that my old Boards2Go bulletin board is still there, and it has more than enough banner impressions left to keep it ad-free for the rest of the year, maybe longer. I still have many pages with the link to this blog, so please update your bookmarks. All future site news and/or updates will be posted on the board, not here. This blog may not be around for much longer, and of the three kept here, only the personal blog was downloaded to my files. The rest? Let 'em die!

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 Site Showcase Closed
 

Due to lack of interest (mine and Domania/d21c members), Site Showcase is now closed to new submissions. For more information on this please see the Site Showcase FAQ page.

Domania's Site Showcase began back in 2005 when Paul Ding bought the web host. At the time, Domania was getting back on its feet after a hacker attack. I supposed that episode brought Domania/d21c members together, forming a community reminiscent of the old GeoCities days. Anyone recall how truly helpful the "community leaders" were, that anyone could ask for help or resolve a problem. That was before the small, friendly web host was gobbled up by the bigger fish, thus killing the community.

I guess interest in Site Showcase waned after Domania changed hands the second and third times. In the past year I've had only one person submit pages. In the past I'd have more than a dozen submissions a month. Within the past year I was lucky to get 4 or 5 new submissions.

It's been fun, but all good things must end. The archived links are still available but I'll need to edit several entries. Some pages are no longer available.

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 Webbilicious Updates
 

Looks as if the visits and page views have increased since the holidays. That is good, so I really need to add some new content to keep 'em coming.

After some consideration, I've mirrored a couple entries from the blog to My Say, a brief but growing collection of personal reflections and opinion articles. I've even given each article a "tag cloud". Don't know why but they're there.

Also, I've revamped the image shares page by adding open directories of new additions. I had a snag 'n' share site at 250Free, but that host has gone west — and I'm more than a little perturbed with Mr. Salisbury, but that is a whole other issue. Anwway, I've added more backgrounds, a few more animated gifs, and scads of cartoon dolls I've made over the years. These shares are permanent, that is no more "30 days then I'm pitching them."

Last item: I'm very close to giving Domania Site Showcase the boot. I've explained in a post on Domania's forum, the link is here. If and when I ever walk away from SSC, I'll give plenty of warning in advance. If anyone from the Domania/PDHomes/Arbor/ZBox/Amish Hosting family wants to adopt Site Showcase, please contact me as soon as possible. I can give you the HTML source codes for FAQ page, submission form, and promotional graphic links ready to paste into your own HTML editor. You just edit for links, contact information, etc.

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 Stupid Stubborn Writer's Burnout!
 

I'm still stuck in a creative slump, and a few weeks ago I thoght my blockage/burnout was slowly curing itself. Wrong! What I believed a return to productivity levels on par with the early days of my fan fiction writing and site building was a false sense of security. Nevertheless, I have one installment of both a new fan fiction and original short-short story completed. They are not linked as of now. I'm still waiting until above-mentioned works are completed in their entirety. That way, I can finally return attention to long overdue projects that have remained in limbo in more than two years. The ideas are in my head but getting them into prose is more than a little difficult. It's not a time factor; it's a combination of fear, feelings of inadequacy, and just plain laziness. These projects will continue, but when is still an uncertainty. As always, any and all updates will be posted here immediately. Thanks for putting up with the delays. It's never been this long between installments, and even very long involved works were completed in record time. If anyone reading this has suffered from extremely really bad writer's block/burnout, please pass on any tips — web sites, books, articles, your own remedies, etc. Thanks so much!
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 Suffering with Writers Burnout but...
 

I've updated my fan fiction site with a note to all: My sites are taking a rest for a few weeks while I assess why I did the writing in the first place. This page explains it all; I won't reiterate here.

I am working on new works (Yes, because I believe it may jump start the stalled stories), one of which might see print by end of month if not sooner. These are short works, both fan fiction and original fiction. And no, I won't tell very much beyond that. Maybe I needed something fresh to retrun to something thought tired and stale. Wish me luck.

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