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 →