Statistic Summary and Updates

Here are the statistics since I started to take statistics. The last peak on the graph was right after I put the last story on the site.

I'm hoping that means something.
I love looking at where all the dots are for each day.
I've also made some changes to the site. The image on the right now loads at random. At the moment I've loaded up four images for it. Refreshing the page or going to another page on the site will load up another image. Took me a hell of a while to work out how to do the JavaScript and html, especially with the sizing and positioning of the thing.
Opps, I almost forgot, I put a poll down at the bottom of the page where you can vote for your favorite story. I made my own vote for "Life and death as a Sitcom."
It came about when I told my mum that I did not think much of my new story, "Support Groups." She read it on the internet and liked it more than the others. I found it a little cruel, she found it funny. It's usually the other way around which I found odd. Well, odder than usual which makes it pretty darn odd!

I'm starting to like the way the site looks and feels. I'm glad I chose the Blogger site as a place to put my stories. I was thinking of buying webspace for the site but this looks a lot better I think. It's kind of a Blog I guess.

I've got to put some more stories up though. I've decided to steer clear of using this as a diary or some speech outlet. It'll only be story related. I'm still editing the one that I wrote before I wrote "Support Groups" and I have another one that I found on my hard drive that I kind of liked that I may put up.

DrMeowMeow

A couple of days ago I wrote a short story and finished it. Did not really like it though. I called it lack lustre. In my opinion it really lived up to its name. I remember finishing the last sentence with a "I'm not impressed" look on my face. It's okay I guess, in comparison to the two previous it's nothing.
I'm getting back into my novels now. I'm writing a huge novel that'll end up being 120 thousand words long. It's called The Tides Of Karni Mata. I remember starting in and getting through the first bit and then looking at the word count and thinking that I was at the count of where I'm usually half way through but I had just really only begun. I guess that's how it works though. I guess I'll have to wait for another short story to come to me to post it on here. So now I'm trying to decided whether I put the okay or even bad stories up on this? Whether I put older stories from a decade ago up here? I was even wondering whether I should put excerpts of my novels up?

On the right I've added a picture of Shio my cat. He is really my best friend when it comes to it. He spends the most time with me, he's like a fuzzy extension of my own being. He's a very demanding cat though and he hates my writing. It means less attention for him. When he sees me walking off to the study he tries to tackle me and bite the tendons behind my knees. I love cats that way, cute and cuddly with just enough of the wild still lurking behind it all. He does not want me sitting behind the computer all night so his first instinct is to cripple me. He's demanded that he has his own webspace so I put up www.myspace.com/drmeowmeow for him. People are always emailing him through it and all he can do is put meowmeow in his replies.

The photo is of him trying to eat the camera.

Typing

Just thought I'd post a picture of one of my old typewriters. I actually used to use this one until common sense prevailed.
Imagine typing and typing and typing a story out and then having to copy it all out on the computer, then to go through the editing process. I used to have to maintain it, the ribbon used to jam up, guests would come over and pound the keys.
I also loved the feel of it though. I think this one was made in 1908. Next year it will be an official antique.

If it wasn't for the size that old typewriters took up, I think I would collect them.
I think the thing that eventually persuaded me to write straight onto the computer was that I was having a harder and hard time finding replacement ribbons.Someone should make keyboards for computers with large, turn of the century keys and levers. I'd buy one (if it did not look too poxy.)

The Blinddust Collection Memories

I renamed the blog The Blinddust Collection. Over a decade ago I used to write only short stories. Now looking back on them I find them terrible.
I feel that I have grown now from then, even though I still have a long way to go.
Sometimes I read one and thinking nice idea. Sometimes I read one and thinking Omigod what was I thinking. Maybe in another ten years I'll look at my work now and think the same thing.
Anyway, over a decade ago I decided to publish and distribute these books. I had a distribution company that sent four seperate books all over the country. It was nice to walk into a bookstore in Melbourne, Sydney or Tasmania and see one or two of your books on the shelves.
The distributor eventually sold their business and I was dropped. I was at that stage realising that I still needed a lot of practice and I was kind of thankful.
All those short stories were great practice and it was nice to have the input from people that bought them or went to my readings.
The first book was called The Blinddust Collection and I always liked that title. So here you'll find it on top of the page.

I also bought http://www.blinddustcollection.com/ with my mum egging me on. I have a feeling she likes the name as well and wants me to do something with the millions of hours of work that I cannot help but keep doing. Hopefully the address will clear and I'll soon attach it to this page, or visa versa which ever is technically correct. I thought I'd attach an image from the first book. I drew it myself and remember really adoring it. I've made it negative so it sort of fits in with the page.

To all those people that bought those books I say thankyou and also sorry, I'll do better