INDELIBLE FRECKLES

– belated ho-ho-ho’s.

And hey: it’s 2010 and it’s been over a week since my last confession.

I haven’t forsaken you, but. I’m on holiday with my Goddess, and I’ve only recently sorted out things like the six five remotes that our very kind host has for his entertainment system, and how to actually use his broadband connection.

Normal transmission will resume in the next few days. Hope the season has treated you well –

– and happy new year from lovely Melbourne.

Posts will continue as normal but the site’s pages and side-bar thingies may come and go over the next few days as I migrate from humble HTML beginnings into WordPress.

Click and cruise at your leisure but beware roaming error messages as I huff and puff and move things around.

What are you doing reading this postdated post, hm?

I won’t tell if you won’t tell.

And, Beloved Reader: as you listen to David Sedaris‘ Santaland Diaries, a very merry Christmas/Hannukah to you and yours.

Okay. Alright.

So I blogged about a chicken – and a dead one at that – and tried to pass it off as being about supporting characters by bookending it with some weak-ass scriptwriting observations. It’s just that, in the aftermath of Wallace’s sudden departure, The Goddess said, If we’re like this over a chicken we’ve only known six months, we’re gonna be a mess when The Dog karks it.

And I looked at The Dog -

- and flashed on my earlier ramblings about her.

… Best not to think about it.

Anyway, I was going to post about the use/misuse/abuse/un-use of supporting characters but I ended up drafting something about finishing the first draft of a script.

I happened* across this blog in Firefox earlier in the week and saw that some of the posts are appearing alongside each other rather than in a neat and orderly queue down the page. Sorry about that. It seems to only affect the Mozilla-based browsers, including Camino and Navigator. I’ve no idea how to fix it. But I’m looking into it.

Please bear with me. Or, like me, use Opera.

* Okay: I was vanity-googling from another machine.

Been flat out with work this past week. Not even enough time to throw together a Point & Click. I’ve more of the same this coming week.

Meantime, try Phill Barron’s blog on the scriptwriter’s life in the shallow end – ask him about his supercool new laptop.

Holy smoley – it’s a year already.

Plug-time because it’s important to give credit where it’s due. All praise to:

• The Goddess who says nary a word when she catches me blogging instead of Writing;

• The Webmistresse, whose redoubtable webskills made the site a reality;

• the generous Dara McNaught at the New Zealand Writers Guild whose suggestion of a website was seized on by someone desperate to avoid Writing; and

• you Readers, all five of you, for making my visitor stats look good, and providing the occasional but welcome break from the email- and comment-spam.

Jesus loves you.

Tinker-tinker-tinkering at dfmamea.com:

Enjoy.

My apologies for the delay in updates at dfmamea.com. No excuses other than Life.

I should warn you that things like keeping the site content up-to-date and blogging have been taken over by yours truly. (Upon transition, the WebMistresse sternly advised, “don’t break it“, so I’m forging ahead with cautious enthusiasm.) This doesn’t mean she’s ridden into the sunset, pistols smoking on her hips, her job well done – I’m hoping she’ll provide technical support, and there are some newfangled things she wants to try out.

Quick update then:

You should be seeing less of these Housekeeping entries. They were fun while the site was being put together.

But now it’s time for more Rants.

Let’s all hold hands and welcome the Projects page!

… Damn it looks thin. The plan has been – and still is – to write at least two scripts a year: one commission and one spec. So far, so good. But still… it looks damned thin.

(A little web-housekeeping voice in my head keeps wondering aloud about the possibility/eventuality of rationalising the various webpages of what I’ve written, what I’ve done, and what I’m working on. A focus group shall be called. Meantime, I like the idea of lots of pages on this site.)

Next episode’ll be 1 October. And apologies for the delayed update – the WebMistresse caught the lurgy going ’round.