I’ve been working on a cypher
It’s for a book. Honest.
Nothing nefarious going on here, no sir.
Now, given my limited brains on the subject, I thought the wise thing to do was encode something with my cypher and let the internet geniuses out there try and crack it.
So here’s the encoded text:
Raewadmzpeqhqzkudlmsaairmjqdlndafradjazjuexbagvarag'narjanlba'xbafrirqvaYvoregv'naqqrqvxngrqgbkrcebcbfvlbakngnyzranexerngrqrxjny*Abjjrnerratnwrqvantengfvivyjb'grfgvatjrkreknganlba'benavanlbafbxbafrirqnaqfbqrqvxngrq'xnaybatraqhe*Jrnezrgbantergongy|svyqbskngjb*Jrunixbzgbqrqvxngncbelbabigungsvyq'nmnsvanyerfgvatcynfsbkbmuhuvetnikreyvimkngknganlbazvgyvi*Vgvmnygbtrkresvgvatnaqcebcrkngjrlhqqbkvf*Ohg'vanynewrfraf'jrpnaabgqrqvxng||jrpnaabgxbafrxeng||jrxnaabgunyb||kvftebjaq*Kroenizra'yvivatnaqqrq'jubfgehtyquve'unixbafrxengrqvg'snnobibjcbecbjrgbnqbeqrgenxg*Krjreyqjvyyvgyabg'abeybaterzrzorjngjrfnvuve'ohgvgxnaarirsbetrgjngkrlqvquve*Vgvmsbehfguryvivat'enkre'gborqrqvxngrquvegbkrhasvavlrqjrexjvpkrvuhsbguveunikhfsnfbaboyvnqinafq*Vgvmenkresbhfgboruveqrqvxngrqgbkrterggnfxerzravatorsbehf||kngsebzkrfrbabeqqrqjrgnxvaxerfqqriblbagbkngpbmsbjvpkrltnikrynfgshyzrmhebsqriblba||kngjruveuvyvermbyikngkrfrqrqlnyabguniqvqvaira||kngkvfanlba'haqrTbq'lnyuninahorekbiserqbz||naqkngtbirezragbikrcrcy'ovkrcrcy'sbkrcrcy'lnyabgcrevlsebzkrrek*
What say you all? Crackable? Uncrackable?
Scavenger is live!
Yes! The free book is out. Go. Download. Read. Enjoy.
ps, Happy 40th to me.
pps, Somehow, I have two folks downloading before I have the ISBN'ed version up. Go me.
Phew! (pantpantpant)
I managed to bodge up a cover for my upcoming free book [Out TOMORROW!] in fantastic Suck-O-Vision care of my pathetic art skills and equally pathetic Inkscape skills.
It all stems from the concept that there’s a point in my story where my antagonist is completely covered in… things… [Spoilers] Therefore, the view plate of their helmet would be all HUD.
All I had to do was design the farging HUD.
Pain. In. The Arse.
Not doing that again if I can help it. Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope…
At least I have A cover, even if it’s not a fantastic cover, or a brilliant one like I know Xotxot would have concocted.
Of course, now that I’ve done this, I’m going to find ten bajillion potential covers in my inbox… 9_9 At least I was prepared.
And, despite my best beloved’s disparaging remarks, I managed to bodge it together in less than half an hour. So ner.
Progress report of a sort
Okay, so I finally got off my divot and transferred my soon-to-be-released free book into MSWord 7 ‘cause that’s the only editor that exists for the nice folks at Smashwords 9_9
Now I’m just waiting for @xotxot to get back to me about the cover.
I’m getting nervous. As I usually do when my success at a plan is entirely dependant on someone else. I’ve had plans of mine fail purely because someone I was depending on couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t feel like doing me a favour.
The question I put to you is:
Should I concoct a cover in my typical Suck-O-Vision limited Inkscape skills, just in case? Or should I have faith that it will all work out somehow?
An announce.
There are seventy parts of Misfits.
SEVENTY.
My God, why can’t I write this much when I’m working on a Pro-novel?
Words that don’t exist, but should: Inanism
Inanism (n): [in-NAYN-is-um] 1. a saying, malapropism or phrase that is inherently inane. [eg: “Working hard or hardly working?”] 2. a means of filling the air with noise under the guise of conversation. [eg: “Sure, we talked; but it was all inanisms.”] orig: Inane.
Why this word needs to exist: we seriously need a word for the verbal nothing that spouts effortlessly from the mouths of those loud, annoying people in the office/workspace/elevator.
Endorse the word. Make it real.
"Blowing Bubbles" is live!
A little stand-alone work on the nature of reality and such. It may be my last short story for a bit, as I’m throwing myself at novels.
…and missing a lot…
Writer Rants: Breath vs Breathe
This is one of the ones that chafes my niblets something fierce.
Ranting in three… two…
Good Boy is live!
The potentially stomach-twisting story of an old man and his dog…
Words an author never wants to hear
“We think your novel will make an excellent kids’ series.”
“How about [Completely wrong actor] to play the part of [Your hero(ine)]?”
“We love it, but can we cut the [Entire point of the whole damn book]?”
Hey, Hollywood. How about you trust that we did our best to write a good book and at least try to be faithful to the actual content?
Not that I’ve got close to getting there, yet. But I have seen enough books murdered by the hollywood process to know a little something. Between whitewashing, cutting exposition in favour of big boom or T&A, or just plain rewriting the whole damn thing… It’s a wonder you still call it movie rights.
It should be called “Title rights” because the thing that winds up on the screen has little to no resemblance to the original.
Hell, if I ever make it that far, I want my manuscript to be murdered by Studio Ghibli. They at least turn out something pretty and nicely surreal. Look what they did to The Little Mermaid, aka Ponyo.