I updated my blog a bit, changed the background, played around with the colors. Would y'all mind taking a look and letting me know what you think? Is it easy to read, links clear, etc. The background is from an old poetry book I have; I tried to keep the words kind of blurry and covered so I wouldn't stray into copyright infringement territory. Thoughts?
https://wordencounters.wordpress.com/
Nope, it looks good on my tiny netbook!
Nope. It's on twitter. Basically it's half-hour sprints, then 15-minute rests, with a bunch of other authors. @FriNightWrites hosts them.
hey everyone
Thanks! I'll have to revive my Twitter account to join next time.Nope. It's on twitter. Basically it's half-hour sprints, then 15-minute rests, with a bunch of other authors. @FriNightWrites hosts them.
I vote for fun! Haven't seen those around for a while.Trying to decide whether Paranormal Bromance should borrow tropes from paranormal romances or if it should just be a fun contemp fantasy/paranormal with a funny name and concept
Stiger, you know I love you already, so, these are constructive comments, I hope. I think the blog looks great as far as readability and navigation, but it also looks like a wordpress blog using twenty-eleven. (I think that's twenty-eleven, right? It's one of the twenty themes.)
I'm a big fan of "blog tzujing," i.e., making tiny tweaks to your theme so even if you're using the same theme that everyone and their mother is using, it looks uniquely yours. In the twenty themes, you can upload your own header image and your own background image. It might be worth it to spend some time on the flickr Creative Commons archives searching for things like "books" "writing" etc. or even looking in your own photos for something that speaks uniquely to you. You can also change the colors (I think right in the 'theme' menu for that theme, but if not, I can tell you how to do it in the CSS--it's not hard to figure out) so that they uniquely match the photos you choose.
I think it looks great and fine and functional, but I think you could also do a couple easy tweaks make it really look like "Stiger's blog" and not like other authors who use the same platform and theme.
Oh, yeah, definitely. As long as the character or situation isn't similar.There is nothing wrong with nicking a name from something you love.