{"id":236,"date":"2013-11-13T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T04:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=236"},"modified":"2013-11-14T21:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T02:18:14","slug":"df-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matthewcoxbooks.com\/wordpress\/2013\/11\/13\/df-menu-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Crumpets and Collected Fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So here it is, week 11 of the blog. Seems like just yesterday I was staring at my email inbox, chewing my fingernails away to nothing while waiting on word from Curiosity Quills regarding my submission. Somewhere within that blur of anxiety, I received the suggestion ‘you need a website’.<\/p>\n

Naturally, I agreed with them, and sat down staring at a blank screen. After a few hours of failure to channel my (lack of) Mechanical Aptitude Psionic power, I realized I would need to do something else. The computer was not terribly impressed with a series of silly faces. Even the cats shook their heads.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, a close friend who shall remain, for the moment, nameless has a knack for this sort of thing and helped get the ball rolling. (Not the umbrella toting ball, that’s something else entirely…)<\/p>\n

With Marty (so much for the nameless part) came hosting space, domain, and blammo — instant blogdom. Of course, the question remained – what do I put on it. While I continue to roam about the dusty labyrinthine corridors between my ears for ideas about which to ramble (and hopefully not bore anyone to death), I decided to take a future novel idea and put it up for grabs in small pieces.<\/p>\n

This, I hoped, would allow me to lure people to come back to the site once a week, on the designated day (Thursday) eager for their weekly glimpse into the world of my mad–err, fiction. [wink]<\/p>\n

So thereupon, with task in hand, I began the DF blog fiction.<\/p>\n

As it is now week eleven, some of you new to the site are probably looking at post 9, 10, and soon to be 11, wondering WTF is going on, feeling a bit lost, and either wandering off for a spot of Earl Grey or trying to [I hope it’s this one] dig down to the bottom to find the beginning.<\/p>\n

On good advice from one of the CQ gurus, I’ve added a separate link to the menu for “back posts” of DF. To be even nicer, I’ve condensed the blog-sized bits into nice chaptery goodness that will hopefully make it a bit less kitten-punchingly frustrating to read. The crumpets (for the tea) alas, did not react well to being uploaded… Those, you will need to furnish on your own.<\/p>\n

(I do not advocate the punching of kittens, or the feeding of smashed crumpets to full grown cats.)<\/p>\n

So with that said, I will continue to blog the story weekly (hopefully not weakly) and as chapters finish, will add them to the archive the following month. I suppose that means since those of you who were so desperate [one can hope] to get your weekly fix of DF can now return only at the more leisurely pace of once a month (or thereabouts, silly leap years) – I shall have to endeavor to occupy this pace with other things.<\/p>\n

Well, so be it. I’m still lost in those cobwebs by the way, but I’m getting somewhere soon. I can almost smell cinnamon buns.<\/p>\n

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-m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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