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January 2011

Gates, Bars, and Fear

Of late, my thoughts (when I’m not actually bashing my head into a wall getting back onto the writing horse) have been turning to what it is exactly that I intend on doing here. And I know, I know – big plans, etc., keep your eye on the feed, yadda yadda…

But I’ve been thinking about one of the themes I see in my writing – paying a price. Anything worthwhile has a price associated with it. In Cost of Miracles, it was the sanity of one of the characters. In High Moon, it’s the service the Sinner does for the Preacher. In real life… what is the price we’re willing to pay for success? Is it worth it?

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Turn and face the strange…

Started the next steps here at MPF this evening. Basically, I’ve ditched Blogger in order to pay for my own hosting and run WordPress. In the long run, this will be a good move in a lot of ways.
One way in particular – I think I can get away from libsyn.
Don’t get me wrong, I haven’t had any problems with Libsyn, and they’re a fine company. However, with this site, I get unlimited hosting and bandwidth, and the monthly cost will work out to less than what I was paying before. Also, WordPress. And other things which are coming.
So, eventually the blogger blog (available right now at madpoetfiles.blogspot.com) will be imported here, and then we’ll move on to the next phase.

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What I’m Doing Today.

After shutting down GSG, the obvious question is what’s next. What will I be doing with my copious spare time?

Hopefully I’ve learned one lesson from last year – and that’s to hold your cards a little closer. So, I’m not going to be very explicit in what I’m doing for the foreseeable future. There are the obvious things, of course. Flying Island Press continues to take some time – FlagShip has a Super Secret Subscriber’s Only issue coming out next week. If you ever want to see it, you’ll have to be subscribed by the end of January, because at that point, we take the files down and it will no longer be available anywhere.

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What I Did Yesterday.

Yesterday, I recorded the last official episode of Geek Survival Guide. Some people were a little disappointed by that, and I wanted to explore a little why I did it.

At the beginning of 2010, I came out of the gate with a ton of enthusiasm. I was going to run Mad Poet Files AND Geek Survival Guide, get a lot of content out there, really kick butt. And I recorded this gung ho episode that in hindsight was pretty hilarious where I said I was going to release a new episode of one or the other every week. Which was an utter failure on my part. I think I recorded something like two additional episodes of GSG in 2010 before we actually hit November and I did the NaNoWriMo thing again.

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