I spend an awful lot of my time over on Booksie now. I have quite a few novels (one topping over 100 chapters), and a bunch of short stories, poems, and the like. I enjoy doing them and have a few fans following me. Over there, I write under the name “Tom Oldman” so if you go to Booksie.com and do a search for that name, you’ll find me.
Lately, I’ve found WordPress to be a bit ‘clunky’ as an interface and have to go looking for functions and buttons that used to be quite visible. I really hate it when a web host makes changes just for the sake of changing something to make it look like they’re ‘moving along’. My adave has always been: If it works, don’t screw with it”.
Facebook, on the other hand, is really, really bad at creating chaos out of calm. For absolutely no reason I can see, colors are changed, position of buttons either changed or dropped/added willy-nilly, and whole iFrames are either modified or moved to make way for an increasing amount of ads. I’ve been kept busy writing scripts for my GreaseMonkey add-on in Pale Moon that helps me kill things that irritate me (especially on Facebook). Of course, nobody in their “customer service” even deigns to answer a simple query or an enraged complaint. No matter how nasty you are to them, they simply ignore you.
Anyway, I will now climb down off my soapbox and get some sleep.
Great to hear you are writing.
Thanks, Tanya. WordPress is a great place for a blog, but doesn’t lend itself well to actualy books and such. Booksie is oriented towards novels, short stories, poems and such so I hang out there mostly.