Movie Frustration

I don’t know if I’m the only one who has this problem or it it’s more widespread, but I sure seem to get an awful lot of movies from Netflix that are unwatchable.  I spend more time trying to get the movies to continue from being in a frozen state… Continue reading

Store is Live

Today I finally got the eshop running well enough to declare it open for business, despite that being somewhat misleading.  The shelves are stocked with one product, a PDF version of my short story “How to Thwart a Dictator.”  It’s a humorous story that originally appeared in Tales of the… Continue reading

New Web Site Live

The new web site is live and kicking.  I moved the blog away from the Blogger site and it is now totally self-contained.  The estore, where you will be able to download my fiction in various formats, is still under construction as I figure out how it works and how… Continue reading

Zen Cart Roadblock

I hit a brick wall with Zen Cart today. Fellow writer Eric James Stone develops web sites for his day job. We were on the phone discussing the Zen Cart install that I had going and discovered it to be very cumbersome to set a file up for download. While… Continue reading

Zen Cart Progress

I have tried twice in the past to install Zen Cart. During yesterday’s install, I remembered why it was unsuccessful in the past. At one point, there are files that need to be made read-only. I know how to do that, but I could never access the UNIX command line… Continue reading

Digitized Future

Since my meeting with Michael A. Stackpole last friday, digital publishing has been more and more on my mind. I’m in the planning stages of setting up a storefront on www.ricknovy.com. Since there seems to be growing interest in this area, I’ll be documenting the experience here for other writers… Continue reading

RiNoWriMo a Bust

Bad bad weekend for productivity. Weekends are very difficult to use for writing. Distractions, tasks, and more distractions abound. So, not surprisingly, I have totally fallen off the RiNoWriMo wagon. I’m now hopelessly behind. So, how to go forward? Actually, it isn’t as bad as it seems. Although I haven’t… Continue reading

RiNoWriMo – Day 5

Despite this being RiNoWriMo day 5, I did not generate any new word count today. That doesn’t mean that I didn’t get anything meaningful in terms of writing accomplished. I spent a good hour or so with Michael A. Stackpole discussing digital publishing. For those not familiar with his model,… Continue reading

RiNoWriMo – Day 4

Ok, so this is not going as well as I had hoped, but I am still making progress and that’s a change over last month. Several unusual situations are competing for my time, but I did manage to complete the draft of the Aether Age story today. It finished up… Continue reading