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- What’s New Monday, Jan 14 @ 14:03- Latest news, thoughts, and things to come Monday January 14 2019 So there's one more chapter to read in my novel in the making. Check that out below. 🙂 At the moment I'm pondering various audio options for making this place more interesting/more enjoyable to browse. I've checked a few plugins for text to speech. Amazon poly is probably great but it would cost me something, and I'm not clear how much. gSpeech is another one but it doesn't seem to do what I want. Responsive something something TTS has an awful female voice and I'm quite picky. Sigh. So, what I want to do is to have a button to speak outlaid the post in question. These days it is not a big thing, but navigating plugins to find the stuff I'm going to be happy with is an entirely different can of worms. There's of course the option of converting the posts I want to have spoken myself and use a standard audio player.... Uh, is that really something I want to spend my time on? Uh, no. So I'll keep looking. While I do that, I write, I revise, and I wait for something to happen on the music front. Seems a bit slow at the moment. Until next time. Cheers Saturday January 5 2019 Happy new year... I guess. 😀 So what's happening? I am currently revising chapters, rewriting some, writing others. I am talking about Mother of Crow, the novel in progress. Up for publishing are chapters 6 through 8. I'm just about to do some revision on chapter 9 - Smoke and ashes and a crazy clerk. Other than that, just getting through January could be tough. But no matter how I think about things, time moves on in a steady pace. That's just… Read all of it.
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- Do you thank your Alexa? Here’s why I think you should. – A reflection Wednesday, Jan 16 @ 12:44- Do you thank your Alexa? Here's why I think you should. So, you've got one of those. The Alexa, the Google assistant, the Cortana, the infamous Siri on your phone, tablet, computer, or of course that smart speaker sitting there on the counter listening.
- Mother of Crow – 06 never fear for this has been known (First rewrite) Sunday, Jan 13 @ 11:15- Chapter 6 – never fear for this has been known “Wait here.” Frederico whispered to John. “Remember what to do? Okay?” John opened his mouth. Frederico silenced John with a raised hand. “Push. That’s all you need to remember.” John nodded carefully beneath his disguise. He whispered to Frederico’s feet, “Push. Fast.” Frederico nodded and …
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- Mother of Crow – 05 – A pleasant little town (Revised draft) Monday, Jan 14 @ 13:52- Chapter 5 A pleasant little town Gabriel listened with half an ear and none of his attention to Jesse’s pointless conversation with a mindless town official in the dirty little office. It had taken them less than a minute to realize that any hope of finding any sense or useful information would be a complete …
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- Mother of Crow – 04 Mundane things, and water (Revised draft) Saturday, Jan 5 @ 19:40- Chapter 4 Mundane things. And water Mary turned off the tap from the water collector and moved the full bucket to one side. She reached into the tepid water and grimaced. Tendrils of slimy water vine stuck to her hand. She moved the hand in several small circles before pulling it out of the bucket. …
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- Gutenberg editor in WordPress 5.0 – yeah, I gave it three minutes. Useless crap I can live without. Wednesday, Dec 19 @ 19:49- Crap, I tell ya! I have but a few words to say about the new editor in WordPress’ latest update. Their new fancy editor has become cool and intuitive and modern and flexible…. errr, and totally fucking useless! If you like it, then I know that you are sighted. I am not. The accessibility that …
- Privacy Policy Thursday, Dec 20 @ 16:15- Who we are Our website address is: https://houseofimp.com. Website owner: Jenny K Brennan. This is a personal website operated from Ontario, Canada. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address …
- Dissonance- New single from Icarus machine Tuesday, Dec 25 @ 11:10- Dissonance – Single by Icarus machine 2018 Written by Jenny K Brennan. With guitars, mixing, mastering and production by Bill Babcock. With the always amazing Jordi Ribas on the bass. While we ramp up work for our next major release, -We give you Dissonance. Patrons are awesome and you could be one of them. check …
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- Mother of Crow – 03 – To panic or not to panic (Rewrite 1) Saturday, Jan 5 @ 19:07- Chapter 3 To panic or not to panic A dusty pile of shattered butterfly, a bottomless pit of dread, a shattered future. All of that could be stuffed in Frederico’s memory hole and covered with some blissful ignorance. If it weren’t for the distant echoes of instant punishment and the true consequence of his failure …
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- Mother of Crow – 02 The choices of flutterbys (Revised draft) Saturday, Jan 5 @ 19:06- Chapter 2 The choices of flutterbys A voice like velvet, like chill wind over frozen forest floor, of sand over water. It was all of those sounds in one gentle plea. Perhaps the tender tone was a trick of the acoustics in the bare stone room with its unforgiving surfaces and odd architecture throwing the …
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- Mother of Crow – 01 Build me pretty, break me prettier (Revised draft) Saturday, Jan 5 @ 19:03- Chapter 1 Build me pretty, break me prettier “Isn’t she a beauty? Such a marvel. Just see those lines and how it all fits together.” He interrupted himself “jenks?” Lord Lee Reginald Maddow, outfitted in his finest, already well on his way to flat out drunk, looked around the crowd in search for the man …
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