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[violachic]

Maybe I'm a writer?



Am I a writer?



I'm a writer?



I'm a writer!



I'm a writer!!!!




I have set up a new blog, that I am referring to as my "Big Kid Blog", at wordpress. It is www.joyfullysubversive.wordpress.com. There isn't anything there yet, except a poorly formatted copy of my latest sermon, but as soon as I figure out how to work posting at Wordpress (which is so entirely different from using LiveJournal!), I hope to be writing in it regularly.

I am definitely keeping my LJ account, and will always hope to make it a paid account- for a vast myriad of reasons. I have had this journal for six and a half years, and it has been very, very important to me. But it is also true that LiveJournal is practically a social networking site than a blog site- it really isn't a blogger's blog site. Also, I'd like to keep my big kid blog as separate from my personal blog as possible; this does mean that I will ask folks who read both to try not to link me back to LJ on that site. There are three main reasons for this: 1) I want my parents to be reading Joyfully Subversive, and I really don't want them reading this blog; everyone needs something that is out of sight of their parents' eyes; 2) I am going to link my full name to JS, and do not want my full name linked with my LJ account; and 3) if I end up with regular readership over there, they really don't need to be party to the angst and craziness that is my violachic journal- especially the last few years.

But I am finally accepting the label of writer. I've always loved to write, and when I was younger, in school, was often told by teachers that I was good. However, my fiction and poetry, even though it was good, was never great, and it was really my papers that were. I am not an academic or a scholar, but I am realizing that I do write a certain style of non-fiction very well. I hope to do a lot of writing about Palestine over on JS, including my personal experiences over there. In reading back through my "tags" section, I realized that my best writing came from being in the fire, and then the frying pan- because I was writing about my experiences and feelings. So I'm going to use that.

I have created an RSS feed, mostly because I can- joyfllysubvrsve. Yes, I am aware that it looks like it is written in LOLspeak or textspeak, but I had to get rid of some vowels in order to make it fit.

Anyway, that is enough Wee Hours Rambling for now. I got almost no sleep on Saturday night, feel asleep last night at eight, and woke up a little while ago. I am going to dork around online for a bit, get a snack, and go back to bed, as I don't need to be up till ten today.

In the meantime...

I'm a writer!

Comments

[j00j.livejournal.com]

Re WordPress formatting: Did you paste the sermon into WordPress from MS Word? That probably accounts for a lot of the weirdness. If you pasted it into the Rich Text editor, there may be an option for cleaning up bad Word HTML junk. Or a manual way of fixing this would be to try pasting it into the plain text/HTML editor rather than the rich text editor, and see if that gets rid of Word's weird formatting. Although you may then need to add some HTML to get formatting you want (e.g. line breaks) in there. If you have trouble, let me know and I can see if I can give you some more specific tips-- I haven't tried pasting formatted text into WordPress much, so I don't know what the most efficient way of handling it is.

[violachic.livejournal.com]

Well, Open Office, but that's essentially the same thing, yes.

I haven't had a chance at all to play around with formatting on WordPress yet- I was under the impression WP didn't use HTML, but CSS, which I definitely don't know. But I could very well be mistaken. I have a friend who has been using WP for a long time, I am going to ask her for a tutorial.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Open Office has some of the same issues, I think.

If you're formatting a post (e.g. paragraph breaks, making things bold, etc), WP uses HTML. CSS is used for some layout stuff. And to further confuse the issue, WordPress is written in PHP.

But all you need to worry about for normal posting is a little HTML, if that. Also, my WP expert-ish friend says she's pretty sure there's a "paste from word" option in the rich text editor (hopefully it works similarly for Open Office).

If your friend is around and can come over and look at stuff with you, that's ideal. I'm happy to consult with you via IM or whatever if you need it, though. I'll need to play with WordPress a bit more to figure out how to describe things better.